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Are you sure what ICE is doing is really all that much different and what’s instead dramatically different is your awareness of every even borderline thing ICE

by afutd 7y ago

Are you sure what ICE is doing is really all that much different and what’s instead dramatically different is your awareness of every even borderline thing ICE is doing now? Just how familiar were you, or are you for that matter, with the full scope of ICE’s activities circa 2015?

CydeWeys 7y ago
ICE was not routinely separating children from their families back in 2015. They weren't putting kids in fucking cages. This false equivalence is nonsense.
- afutd 7y ago
  Even if we look at the phrasing "kids in cages" it's an obvious talking point that's coming straight from someone that coined it for a reason. It's pretty obvious that a bunch of people that have their moral outrage cranked up to 11 right now are played like finger puppets. You all haven't the foggiest idea of the history here, and frankly you don't seem to care. I look forward to seeing your posts taking positions on the fires in the amazon or whatever else the people manipulating you decide is the next big thing, no doubt written as if you were lifelong expert after having read one article and four tweets.
- makomk 7y ago
  Remember that first iconic, heartwrenching photo of kids in fucking cages that started to circulate on social media? It was literally a photo from 2014 that was being misrepresented from the Trump era - and it keeps happening. Apparently some Democrat congressional members managed to misrepresent other photos from the same set just last month: https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/house-dems-use-obama-era-photos-to-promote-kids-in-cages-hearing/ https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/house-dems-use-obama-era-photo... No-one described those kids in cages as kids in cages until Trump was elected. From what I could tell, only one local news outlet even ran with that shocking, arresting image of a kid in a cage looking into the camera when it was actually news.

by afutd 7y ago

CydeWeys 7y ago

ICE was not routinely separating children from their families back in 2015. They weren't putting kids in fucking cages. This false equivalence is nonsense.

afutd 7y ago
Even if we look at the phrasing "kids in cages" it's an obvious talking point that's coming straight from someone that coined it for a reason. It's pretty obvious that a bunch of people that have their moral outrage cranked up to 11 right now are played like finger puppets. You all haven't the foggiest idea of the history here, and frankly you don't seem to care. I look forward to seeing your posts taking positions on the fires in the amazon or whatever else the people manipulating you decide is the next big thing, no doubt written as if you were lifelong expert after having read one article and four tweets.
makomk 7y ago
Remember that first iconic, heartwrenching photo of kids in fucking cages that started to circulate on social media? It was literally a photo from 2014 that was being misrepresented from the Trump era - and it keeps happening. Apparently some Democrat congressional members managed to misrepresent other photos from the same set just last month: https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/house-dems-use-obama-era-photos-to-promote-kids-in-cages-hearing/ https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/house-dems-use-obama-era-photo... No-one described those kids in cages as kids in cages until Trump was elected. From what I could tell, only one local news outlet even ran with that shocking, arresting image of a kid in a cage looking into the camera when it was actually news.