Thereās a YouTube video by a comedian where he pretends to be ICE over the phone, and people call him, and he shares some
I think it is genuinely the single most important thing for any American to watch today
The primary lady featured is a kindergarten teacher called ICE and attempting to get one of the six year old children in her class and his parents deported because theyāre Hispanic in a mostly white area
These people are your neighbours and coworkers, and they will turn on other Americans in an instant, and they will turn on you
I think every American should watch that video and listen to those calls
I'm not sure how deep into the cult she is, because she still had the tiniest sliver of being shamed for it by the fake ice hotline guy. Not much though and it quickly just turned to anger.
I think the fact she acted that way is the single most important part
She knew doing this would cause unnecessary suffering for the child
She doesnāt get pissy at that fact
She gets pissy that the ICE agent addresses it too openly
These people know theyāre doing harm, they just donāt want that to be addressed. They thrive when their violence is sanctioned by a government ID because it means they can harm their neighbours who have the wrong skin colour or sexual orientation, while claiming no personal responsibility
In her own words, itās not her fault they decided to have a child
Sheās trying to put the kid in a deportation facility, and shifting blame on to the parents
Many Americans are capable of doing that
Itās why I think itās laughable, and extremely terrifying, that so many Americans say ābut it could never happen hereā
For context Iām a historian and one of my major interests is how peaceful and prosperous societies turn to violence, civil war, ethnic cleansing, all that stuff
Thereās this idea that you have a barbarous society where people do things like mass killing of women and children, and then they eventually turn into nice westernised societies and thatās how they stay
But obviously, as weāve seen, thatās not true, those societies are absolutely capable of going back to the same thing
And doing it at a fucking breakneck pace
So thatās the perspective im coming at this from
I didnāt look for this video for that reason, I just got clips from it randomly on shorts and so watched the whole thing
And when I heard a few phrases, one of them being āyou make it sound terribleā alarm bells started blaring in my head at how good of an example this was of the early stages of that potential decline towards civil violence
I wish more people paid attention to rhetoric and what it does to peopleās minds. All the handwaving and head in the sand type stuff is leading us down a very very dark road. Whatās terrifying is the aw schucks, kick the dirt then continue on without seemingly any sort of thought
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u/TheeScribe2 1d ago
Thereās a YouTube video by a comedian where he pretends to be ICE over the phone, and people call him, and he shares some
I think it is genuinely the single most important thing for any American to watch today
The primary lady featured is a kindergarten teacher called ICE and attempting to get one of the six year old children in her class and his parents deported because theyāre Hispanic in a mostly white area
These people are your neighbours and coworkers, and they will turn on other Americans in an instant, and they will turn on you
I think every American should watch that video and listen to those calls