Who is going to learn from this? The people who voted for this? The people whose entire narrative revolves around a sense of victimhood? Even as they’re being wronged by this government they still don’t get it. And people who are disproportionately affected by Trump’s rule are not going to be WASP republican voters, they’re going to be Black, brown, queer, disabled, immigrants, and so on.
Nothing is going to be learned here and the people most severely impacted by this nor did they want or deserve this. So chomping at the bit for “just desserts,” comes off as quite misguided.
This video is blowing up, so it’s not like only Beehaw users are going to see it. Plenty of Centrists and neolib democrats are seeing this behavior, and it has the potential to disabuse them of the notion that the US government is good. Will some of them look at it and just think, “anyone but Trump and this wouldn’t happen”? Sure, but plenty will realize that this is the same government that did Rodney King, Kent State, Blair Mountain, etc (as well as all the international abuses and evil we enable and perpetrate), and it’s just a matter of time before it turns on them.
So chomping at the bit for “just desserts,”
Once again, saying “look at what they’re actively doing to you right now, that’s what they’ve been doing to us non-Americans all along”, is not advocating or wishing for that abuse, it’s advocating and wishing for people to wake up to the abuse.
Who is going to learn from this? The people who voted for this? The people whose entire narrative revolves around a sense of victimhood? Even as they’re being wronged by this government they still don’t get it. And people who are disproportionately affected by Trump’s rule are not going to be WASP republican voters, they’re going to be Black, brown, queer, disabled, immigrants, and so on.
Nothing is going to be learned here and the people most severely impacted by this nor did they want or deserve this. So chomping at the bit for “just desserts,” comes off as quite misguided.
This video is blowing up, so it’s not like only Beehaw users are going to see it. Plenty of Centrists and neolib democrats are seeing this behavior, and it has the potential to disabuse them of the notion that the US government is good. Will some of them look at it and just think, “anyone but Trump and this wouldn’t happen”? Sure, but plenty will realize that this is the same government that did Rodney King, Kent State, Blair Mountain, etc (as well as all the international abuses and evil we enable and perpetrate), and it’s just a matter of time before it turns on them.
Once again, saying “look at what they’re actively doing to you right now, that’s what they’ve been doing to us non-Americans all along”, is not advocating or wishing for that abuse, it’s advocating and wishing for people to wake up to the abuse.
https://lemmy.ml/post/27770905
Tell me what this kid did to deserve that