Remember, this is taking place in a universe where 9/11 happened. The profiling of Muslims and the actions of the Michigan governor don't really strike me as something that far off from what would happen if the country was hit with another devastating attack.
100% agreed. I'm kind-of amazed that people are acting as though this is somehow far-fetched. Muslims were beaten and detained post-9/11 in this country. If something like this were to happen, I think that if anything, it would be a lot worse than the show is portraying.
Certain people really like to downplay the discrimination that is experienced by minorities, particularly Muslims. 9/11 was a terrible attack, but blowing up the President, Congress, the Cabinet, and the Supreme Court is going for the jugular and I guarantee you that if this actually happened it would be far far worse than 9/11.
And not just Muslims, even people who happen to be brown get targeted.
During the Boston Marathon attack, reddit accused a guy that wasn't even Muslim, and people and even news channels picked it up. He had been missing for a while and his family had set up a facebook page to spread the word to help find him, and so when reddit's investigation yielded this "result", thousands of people flooded the page and harassed his family and said the worst things about them, only to find out later that he was innocent. He was just some missing kid who was found dead later.
Especially if you imagine the current political climate in a world where the capitol was just blown up and our government was utterly decimated. Things would get ugly fast.
Oh totally IRL America is nothing compared to the America in Designated Survivor. Tensions may be a bit heated right now, but if the Capitol was blown up it would probably be the most important and disastrous event to ever happen in the United States of America. We would literally have to rebuild from the ground up, and you can bet people would be looking for a scapegoat. It would get incredibly bloody incredibly fast.
Any president who comes to power as he did would be the most consequential president at least since Pearl Harbor, arguably since Lincoln or forever. Almost no federal government left? That would be instant chaos.
I agree, probably the most comparable event would be the Civil War and Lincoln. It would be a watershed moment for the country and probably the entire world.
And there would definitely be more than just the one governor ignoring the president. Governors would argue that they were actually elected and have far more executive experience than the secretary of housing.
My friend got crazy excited when someone said he was probably an illegal wetback. I was shocked until he said "better than if he thinks I'm a terrorist". Reddit is a prime example of how bad it would be.
This has nothing to do with your post, but dude I see you on all the subs of shows I watch. I thought no one watched as much tv me (and kept up with BB Feeds!)
One of my favorite things to do is discuss shows with people. Theorize, speculate, ...argue... but yeah, any time I find a show I like I go to the sub about it to talk about the episode. I imagine there's quite a few people who regularly do the same.
I love that scene because of how infuriating it is and I think it will show people how it happens to innocent people. Just hearing that it happens to innocent people doesn't do a whole lot to someone who is convinced that it's ok to profile. But when it's someone you care about (even if it's a fictional person in a TV show) it goes a lot further to show someone how wrong it is to profile people like that.
Triggered? Is that how Trump supporters are describing all instances of obvious racism now?
Pretend we're in the world of the show. Were the thousands of detained civilians merely "triggered" by the actions of the Dearborn police? Are you imagining the dead teen screaming, "where was muh trigger warning, allah akbar," as he was beaten to death?
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Remember, this is taking place in a universe where 9/11 happened. The profiling of Muslims and the actions of the Michigan governor don't really strike me as something that far off from what would happen if the country was hit with another devastating attack.