I’m really getting tired of this “they targeted a citizen!” or “they targeted a police officer!”
Like, I guess it supposed to try and get people on the fence to realize what’s going on. But, I don’t think it actually works. I think it actually creates a disassociation between the large numbers of innocent victims and the “special case” of victims we see in the headlines.
It’s essentially telling normies “hey, all the shit they are doing to noncitizens is fine. But you should care about these 3-4 cases of obvious white victims that actually have enough video footage for us to cover”
You know what normies are gonna think? Fucking nothing. We live in a country where people have normalized the mass shooting of toddlers. I don’t think the hyper-focus on “perfect victims” is waking people up. I think it’s making them feel as helpless to change anything as they did after Sandy Hook or Uvalde.
Edit: a cop is far from a “perfect victim” but the people that respect cops see it as such.
I disagree. It really disproves the myth that they’re going after criminals only, that there isn’t racial profiling going on, or that they’re going off of targeted lists. Basically, it’s so bad it can be used to reduce support for ICE, and we need that right now.
I guess my point is that it may change minds and perspectives of ICE. I don’t disagree. But, that doesn’t change the outcomes. And I don’t see it as being effective at doing that. Not anymore that the news coverage of Sandy Hook did for gun control.
The school shootings changed the views of many people in this country on gun control. But changing minds is not my end goal; and it shouldn’t be others goal either. Changing minds is meaningless if there is no systemic change. We can all believe that climate change is caused by humans burning fossil fuels and that it will destroy our world as we know it. But if nothing is done to prevent it the prominence of that idea is meaningless. Numbing to a degree in that “every government knows it’s a problem. Surely something will be done”
I think the American society is sick. We accept our children being gunned down. We accept our government funding and defending a genocide in Gaza. We accept that our politicians and the wealthy were all friends with a pedophile that invited them to rape children. We will accept ICE being Nazis.
We have been entirely conditioned to accept everything until it reaches our doors personally. I guess I should replace “we accept our children” with “we accept others children” in that last paragraph. Because that’s truly how selfish our society is. There is no “we” in America.
I don’t know what it will take for Americans to stop going to work and destroy this entire system. I really don’t. I think our society is is one of the most unhealthy in human history. To the degree that viewing coverage of violent actions of our government becomes numbing. It has been a way for those upset to feel as though they are doing something simply by knowing about it.
I’m really getting tired of this “they targeted a citizen!” or “they targeted a police officer!”
Like, I guess it supposed to try and get people on the fence to realize what’s going on. But, I don’t think it actually works. I think it actually creates a disassociation between the large numbers of innocent victims and the “special case” of victims we see in the headlines.
It’s essentially telling normies “hey, all the shit they are doing to noncitizens is fine. But you should care about these 3-4 cases of obvious white victims that actually have enough video footage for us to cover”
You know what normies are gonna think? Fucking nothing. We live in a country where people have normalized the mass shooting of toddlers. I don’t think the hyper-focus on “perfect victims” is waking people up. I think it’s making them feel as helpless to change anything as they did after Sandy Hook or Uvalde.
Edit: a cop is far from a “perfect victim” but the people that respect cops see it as such.
I disagree. It really disproves the myth that they’re going after criminals only, that there isn’t racial profiling going on, or that they’re going off of targeted lists. Basically, it’s so bad it can be used to reduce support for ICE, and we need that right now.
I guess my point is that it may change minds and perspectives of ICE. I don’t disagree. But, that doesn’t change the outcomes. And I don’t see it as being effective at doing that. Not anymore that the news coverage of Sandy Hook did for gun control.
The school shootings changed the views of many people in this country on gun control. But changing minds is not my end goal; and it shouldn’t be others goal either. Changing minds is meaningless if there is no systemic change. We can all believe that climate change is caused by humans burning fossil fuels and that it will destroy our world as we know it. But if nothing is done to prevent it the prominence of that idea is meaningless. Numbing to a degree in that “every government knows it’s a problem. Surely something will be done”
I think the American society is sick. We accept our children being gunned down. We accept our government funding and defending a genocide in Gaza. We accept that our politicians and the wealthy were all friends with a pedophile that invited them to rape children. We will accept ICE being Nazis.
We have been entirely conditioned to accept everything until it reaches our doors personally. I guess I should replace “we accept our children” with “we accept others children” in that last paragraph. Because that’s truly how selfish our society is. There is no “we” in America.
I don’t know what it will take for Americans to stop going to work and destroy this entire system. I really don’t. I think our society is is one of the most unhealthy in human history. To the degree that viewing coverage of violent actions of our government becomes numbing. It has been a way for those upset to feel as though they are doing something simply by knowing about it.
Sure, but systemic change is that much harder to achieve if nobody wants that change
But the article is about racial profiling. These off duty cops aren’t white.
Yeah? Re-read my comment. I said it helps disprove the myth that they aren’t.
You are right IMO, but I think the stories still help to show that ICE is out of control.