Getting rid of public acknowledgement about class disparity isn’t going to get rid of class disparity,
that article isn't recognizing class disparity, though. it's perpetuating and normalizing it. and yes, the people that are bigots are absolutely also part of the problem. the media is complicit in that, though, including that article.
And has your family started the "well she should have just complied" victim blaming?
"I am SPEED!" -Gus
"Wait. why am I slowing down?" Gus at a lightstop.
and they exist, in large part, because articles like this normalize it.
congratulations in defending part of the problem.
And in making that argument, it signals to the racist assholes that the problem being that she's white, blonde and professional, and therefore the rest are fair game.
which as you say, erodes everyone's rights. But that's not particularly important to me. the rights of all are worth protecting even if that weren't true.
Uhg. FTA:
"She is visible white and 👱 blond, a medical worker, speaks with no accent. This should be a warning sign for MAGAt as they could be preyed by ICE at any time!"
None of that is a reason to believe she's not an undocumented immigrant. And being brown, curly-haired, not-a-medical-worker is not any reason to believe they're an undocumented immigrant.
Is this objectionable behavior by ICE? absolutely. But not because of who the victim is. but because there IS a victim. everyone in this country is protected by the constitution, and afforded the rights of due process- which ICE is flagrantly violating the shit out of.
Can we please stop with the special classes of people like this?
You may have read the article, but the article doesn’t tell the whole story and only focuses on one of the groups. The others were in fact your run of the mill conservative grifters looting things.
Should they have vetted them more thoroughly? Yes, probably. But it was also Covid and they were responding to a food crisis.
NYT is shitting the bed on this one, and outside of some of our more rabid republicans in MN, no one is really buying it here. You know. The kind of republicans that think they’re putting litter boxes in elementary schools, for the students.
and when it’s not still him- he’s involved.
Quark and Odo were the other bromance of the 24th century.
Though they may have been more like Grumpy Old Men.
Catnip?
Granted, I was going to slap it onto one of my parent’s shiny kitchen appliances and make jokes about it being a mistake to let them have WiFi…. But still…..
Snow on Thursday.
Also, they believe the earth is flat because the Bible says so; and the earth is young because the Bible says so, and that science is the devil’s work because it contradicts a book written by Bronze Age goat herders retconned by a guy in the Iron Age that got killed for telling the Roman’s he was king of the Jews.