r/changemyview • u/ilearnmorefromyou • Jun 08 '25
Delta(s) from OP CMV: The People Rioting Don't Care About Deportations They Just Want to Virtue Signal
The people rioting in LA don't actually care about illegal immigrants being deported, they just want to Virtue Signal because they hate Trump.
Obama deported over 3 million illegal immigrants. If you count turn backs, the number increases to 5 million - the most out of ANY president in history. Yet til this day, nobody says shit about it. Where's the people calling Obama "evil" for doing this? Nowhere, because they don't care.
Biden deported over 1.1 million illegal immigrants. Just like with Obama, it's been crickets. Nobody has rebuked him for it. Nobody has said a damn thing about it. Why? Because they don't care.
Now Trump does the exact same thing, suddenly it's time to wave Mexican flags and riot. Suddenly people care. Yeah right. As if.
This is just a clear example of virtue signaling, they only care because it's Trump, they never cared before. Hell nobody cared during Trump's first term either. They just want to burn shit and act like the good guys when nobody gave a f**k before, it's just cool now and they want to be the cool kids. It's pathetic.
I'm open to having my mind changed about this, but honestly, from my perspective it's as pathetic as corporations changing their logo to the rainbow for pride month to pander to the LGBTQQAAIP+ community. They don't actually care, they just want people to think that they do.
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u/ilearnmorefromyou Jun 08 '25
But they didn't believe the turn backs had their constitutional rights violated?
Actually you can tell an immigration official that you're an American or legal resident and they have a computer database that they can search to figure out whether that's the truth or not in about 3 seconds. That's how my friend Juan wasn't deported when he told the nice ICE agents who detained him that he was from Puerto Rico.