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Trump. Immigrants' children. I'm not from US and never been to US either. But many of these stories are heart-breaking.

stingraycharles 8y ago
Ah, right, that makes sense. Not from the US either, but have seen it in the news; couldn’t connect the dots. Thanks for the info.
briandear 8y ago
This “Trump” obsession drives me crazy. Trump could write a check to NAACP and the news story would be how the check wasn’t large enough and because of that, he’s racist. Here is Jeh Johnson talking about the separation of kids from their arrested parents: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/24/obama_dhs_sec_jeh_johnson_we_detained_children_it_was_necessary.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/24/obama_dhs... But several years ago nobody really cared, which tells me, nobody really cares that much now — it’s just yet another tool to generate the rabid hysteria necessary to bolster midterm elections prospects. Every week it’s literally another outrage, while the previous week’s outrage is quickly forgotten. This shouldn’t be a political thread, but since someone seems to be following the “outrage playbook” by making a comment about the detention of those arrested for illegal immigration under Trump, but likely never said anything when it happened under prior administrations —- it is important that we call out political manipulation when we see it. Perhaps if those opposing Trump had actually protested about kid-detention years ago when it started, maybe I might consider their outrage genuine. But now, people are using detained children for political gain, which is pretty disgusting in my opinion. It’s fasionable to pretend to hate Trump, I get it. But it’s funny how people seem to fall all over themselves to express how “woke” they are. Implying that before Trump they were all sleeping? Because in the case of detained children, they sure as hell were sleeping — because their guy was in the White House.
- davidw 8y ago
  This is mostly on Trump and company: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/609225537/sessions-says-zero-tolerance-for-illegal-border-crossers-vows-to-divide-families https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/609225537... There are weekly outrages because these people are shitty, dishonest, incompetent people. It's not just a minor disagreement in some technical bit of policy that causes an arch-conservative like George Will to urge people to 'vote Democrat' come November: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop-this-november/2018/06/22/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.11c11bbb296c https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop...

Ah, right, that makes sense. Not from the US either, but have seen it in the news; couldn’t connect the dots. Thanks for the info.

briandear 8y ago

This “Trump” obsession drives me crazy. Trump could write a check to NAACP and the news story would be how the check wasn’t large enough and because of that, he’s racist. Here is Jeh Johnson talking about the separation of kids from their arrested parents: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/24/obama_dhs_sec_jeh_johnson_we_detained_children_it_was_necessary.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/24/obama_dhs... But several years ago nobody really cared, which tells me, nobody really cares that much now — it’s just yet another tool to generate the rabid hysteria necessary to bolster midterm elections prospects. Every week it’s literally another outrage, while the previous week’s outrage is quickly forgotten. This shouldn’t be a political thread, but since someone seems to be following the “outrage playbook” by making a comment about the detention of those arrested for illegal immigration under Trump, but likely never said anything when it happened under prior administrations —- it is important that we call out political manipulation when we see it. Perhaps if those opposing Trump had actually protested about kid-detention years ago when it started, maybe I might consider their outrage genuine. But now, people are using detained children for political gain, which is pretty disgusting in my opinion. It’s fasionable to pretend to hate Trump, I get it. But it’s funny how people seem to fall all over themselves to express how “woke” they are. Implying that before Trump they were all sleeping? Because in the case of detained children, they sure as hell were sleeping — because their guy was in the White House.

davidw 8y ago
This is mostly on Trump and company: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/609225537/sessions-says-zero-tolerance-for-illegal-border-crossers-vows-to-divide-families https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/609225537... There are weekly outrages because these people are shitty, dishonest, incompetent people. It's not just a minor disagreement in some technical bit of policy that causes an arch-conservative like George Will to urge people to 'vote Democrat' come November: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop-this-november/2018/06/22/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.11c11bbb296c https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop...