“It’s not a lack of training issue, it’s a culture of violence and lawlessness issue.”

  • Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Two Americans with Mexican sounding names killed an American.

    Are you sure you don’t work for ICE?

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              17 hours ago

              Not really, I was thinking the exact same thing when I heard the name. These ICE agents are exactly the ones that would be accused of being an illegal Mexican immigrant under the current way ICE is functioning, and it feels ironic that they’re the ones killing other Americans for ICE’s sake.

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                17 hours ago

                If you’re first thought on hearing a Mexican sounding name is that they can’t be American you would probably make a good ICE employee.

                It doesn’t matter if it’s hypocritical of them, it’s still racism on your behalf.

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                    16 hours ago

                    You heard two Mexican sounding names and thought the exact same thing: “Two Mexicans killed an American, lmao.”

                    Where do I need to learn to read?

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            14 hours ago

            It’s ok that I’m racist to this person, because I don’t like them!

            So ironic, so progressive.

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              13 hours ago

              If my suggestion was correct, tell my how you think the other guy is racist when he doesn’t think they are actually Mexican?

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                12 hours ago

                What.

                Lmao. What do they teach in schools these days… I don’t think that your suggestion is correct. The person called them Mexicans because they had Latino names.

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                  12 hours ago

                  Yeah, so if that’s your argument against the likelihood of my explanation being true, that would make perfect sense. What I don’t understand is why people are so quick to accuse me of being racist as if I’m claiming them to be Mexican? All I see are people not wanting to understand what point I’m making and jumping to conclusions.

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                    11 hours ago

                    It was the part where you said:

                    Not really, I was thinking the exact same thing when I heard the name. These ICE agents are exactly the ones that would be accused of being an illegal Mexican immigrant under the current way ICE is functioning, and it feels ironic that they’re the ones killing other Americans for ICE’s sake.