The irony of two ICE agents, one black and one seemingly a Cuban immigrant, racially profiling a black man and cuffing him and carting him off without ever even identifying him because they say he’s an immigrant.
It kills me how often these videos show brown and black ICE agents violating the US Constitution to abduct and beat people for being brown or black. I don’t care how much ICE pays, it’s not worth selling out your own values and everything that was supposed to be good about this country.
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I specifically said they were not irredeemable, their actions were understandable, and that I wasn’t sure about the word hate. You said that ICE couldn’t use their desperation as an excuse for committing specific acts first, I just broadened the scope of inexcusable acts, so I’m really not sure why you responded like this.
Yes, people would rather hurt others than let their kids starve. No, that’s not an excuse for hurting others, nor for, in my opinion, signing up to hurt others. Apparently you disagree and think that I’m dehumanizing them by holding them responsible.
I was saying it’s very easy to slip into those things when you already call them “class traitors.” Viewing others as bad people and lesser is the first step on that ladder to dehumanizing the enemy and deciding that murdering those who disagree with you is righteous.
It’s better to look at the system and understand what’s driving these things and work to fix that than to demean people for things like joining the military to have a stable income, housing, and education.
It’s not demeaning or dehumanizing them, I’m describing their actions. They are acting in service of a class to which they do not belong at the cost of others in their class.
Understanding what’s driving these things, and working to fix them that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t criticize the hell out of people who sign up to hurt others.