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Maybe you’ve missed the news, but even ICE is not full of only white officers, lots of people of color in there too.

• shadowgovt 8mo ago
  There also seems to be the assumption that people of a particular race can't be racist against members of the same race. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an old story by now, and "One of the good ones" an old meme.
  • yunohn 8mo ago
    The author did not make such a statement, rather (it appears to me), that they were surprised instead by the lack of empathy exhibited by said similar-origin agents. A feeling that is shared by a lot of people who are opposed to the inhumane brutality being meted out, without repercussions, by ICE agents.
    • shadowgovt 8mo ago
      Because race is a story we tell ourselves, it turns out to not be as hard as one might assume to bend the story to make ingroups and outgroups out of people that, to an outside observer, should have more in common than their interactions suggest they do.
  • cyanydeez 8mo ago
    the correct concept of racism is: Bigotry + Power. So you give anyone power and suddenly their view on race matters. The homeless black guy hating white people? What does that matter, he cant go shoot them in the back.
    • linkage 8mo ago
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      • cyanydeez 8mo ago
        Anyone can do that. How often so you think a racist CEO funds a fascist president who funds the opression of immigrants, killing them? Anyway,you are in personal responsibiliry land and been told you are tge master of your domain. Rarely do people who think individuality is paramount care about society. Your example along allows you to fixate on anecdotes because they hit your dopami e.