This isn’t what I usually write about, but I think it’s important.
there are different degrees of resistance, and they have different costs associated with them. marching at the capitol building with tens of thousands of people next week? relatively low cost. but laying down on the tarmac? asking other flight attendants not to work? you ask, “why didn’t she refuse to work the flight?” possibly–probably–in part because that would have cost her her job, then her career. and that’s a choice that some people can make. but especially if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, and especially-especially if you’re supporting others on those paychecks, then losing your job means that you and your dependants can afford neither food, nor shelter as soon as next week.
that’s a lot to ask of someone. i think an important part of your follow-up questions is the word “ready.” are restaurant owners ready to turn away a few customers? maybe. they’ll lose some revenue, gain some press, receive some death threats. they probably won’t lose their restaurant or be physically attacked. are flight attendants ready to lay down on the tarmac, get physically dragged away by the TSA, arrested, interrogated, fired, and blackballed from a career it might have taken years to acquire the security clearances and emergency training for?
maybe.
but… maybe not. maybe they are resisting in other ways, ways that they are ready for. maybe we can all be doing more, just a little more, to help. but maybe we can’t ask everyone to put themselves and their children in danger, even to protest the very real suffering and danger of others.
Obviously what’s happening to these kids is horrific but should we really be calling them concentrating camps though? What do Jewish people think about this?
Hello, Mexican here. They are fucking modern day concentration camps. Children, even infants, are being ripped from their homes, forced into overcrowded abandoned Walmart’s, with only 2 hours a day of outside time. This is no way for children to live. There is a mural on the wall of Trump with the quote, “Sometimes by losing the battle you find a way to win the war.” Do you know what people call shit like that? Propaganda. You can fuck all the way off. I cannot fucking believe you chose to fucking nitpick how this humanitarian problem is discussed because you’re uncomfortable with the horrors happening right before our eyes and would rather call it “problematic.” I can’t fucking stand gringos for bullshit like this.
Hi, Jew here! They are concentration camps and any Jew worth their history will tell you that. The Trump murals, the “we’re just going to take your baby for a bath”, the photos of confiscated rosary beads, the older children taking care of younger children they have no relation to because there are no parents around.
We see this shit and it sends chills up our spines because that was the kind of shit gentiles ignored because it wasn’t “that bad”. It wasn’t “that bad” when they were just confiscating our wedding rings and throwing them into a pile because we were “prisoners”, because it wasn’t “that bad” when they were separating children from their mothers to put them into a separate barracks, because it wasn’t “that bad” when little kids were having to flee through Kindertransport without their parents.
This also isn’t the first time this has been done in America. The Japanese were held in concentration camps here during WWII. And what’s happening now sounds strikingly similar to that as well. A concentration camp is literally just a place where you concentrate a certain group of people against their will.
Not to mention reports like these. The article’s a horrific read. (cw: abuse, rape, the works).
And yeah, don’t think I’ve forgotten you, Australia. If you haven’t seen Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, it’s an incredible film, by detainee Behrouz Boochani from Manus Prison.
I am extremely glad to hear that Trump has signed an executive order to end the separation of families, but please do not think that the battle for justice ends here.
I mean, this is literally what Trump was referring to when he said it was ‘democrats’ law’ that was ‘making’ him separate families.
The law is the one says it’s illegal to incarcerate children for crimes their parents committed for any extended length of time. This is the law Trump wants changed.
The law exists because we realized this prolonged internment of innocent children was sometimes happening (in extremely unsafe conditions no less) and we understood that this was a horrible, inhumane, inexcusable thing to do to a child.
The conflict arose when this was paired with the Trump adminstration’s new “zero tolerance” policy, which drastically increased the number of people being prosecuted (far beyond our capacity to handle with reasonable speed and due process), and meant that refugees seeking asylum (much, much more likely to be families fleeing with small children) must go through sometimes months of appeals trying to see if asylum might be permitted.
The former USA stance was that we must not attempt to intern more people than we could handle humanely. The stance Trump’s administration is pushing for is that we must sacrifice humane treatment of these families to protect our own.
Hey, did you know Border Patrol agents are fond of destroying the food and water caches left in the desert crossing so people don’t die of hunger and thirst?
179 people died crossing between Mexico and Arizona last year, where this happened.
Way to contribute to the deaths of innocent people, sworn officers of the American government!
Regardless of your views on immigration and “illegal” aliens, this is reprehensible. Nothing positive could possibly be gained from such behavior. This is pure cruelty and the result could result in the death of people who, by no stretch of the imagination, could possibly be worthy of a death sentence.
a bunch of people will drive into the desert with guns and shoot holes in water tanks that the green valley samaritans leave out there it’s sickening
Fuck the border agents & every us govt official who knowingly let’s poor people die.
wupacing 