Even if I were doing nothing but posting on social media, you would literally be doing less than that with all your demoralizing doom posting. Just because you're too myopic to see a way out of this mess doesn't mean you need to go around spewing your defeatism all over everyone else and dissuading them from meaningful action in the process.
Once again, I implore you to shut the fuck up. You are part of the problem right now.
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Treating someone as subhuman is a wholly separate action from calling someone's actions inhuman.
Yes, but one definitely leads to the other. The rhetoric informs the action; if one hears something enough times, they may eventually begin to believe it's true.
I just simply can't agree that calling someone inhuman for their oppressive actions towards another human being is anywhere near the same level as calling someone inhuman for simply existing.
Fair enough, we seem to agree on the larger issue here so I won't force the argument. But perhaps you can at least agree that calling those oppressive actions inhuman is directly denying the fact that humans are perfectly capable of such great evils. Which, evidently, they are.
Is it though? One seems more morally justifiable on the surface, but both have the same end result of reducing someone to subhuman status. And that reasoning is almost exclusively used to justify treating people like subhumans.
I'm just saying, we can fight and denounce ICE without adopting their rhetoric and dehumanizing ideals.
I'm not suggesting complacency; quite the opposite in fact. Rage against tyranny and do everything you can to push the fascists out of power. But never forget that you could have been one of them, had your circumstances been different. And never let yourself become their mirror image, because rhetoric like "they aren't human" is exactly how you get there.
People don't stop being people just because they're terrible. That just makes them terrible people. Never forget that the capacity for evil lives in all of us.
Furthermore, the only real purpose of claiming someone has "lost their humanity" is as a justification for treating them as less than human. Which is precisely why you and I despise them in the first place.
Fuck ICE, but stop saying they aren't human. For one thing, their cruelty and depravity should stand as a reminder of what the worst of humanity is capable of. But more than that, dehumanization of one's enemy is the first step toward radicalism. How else do you think they came to have their own terrible views?
They weren't born like this. They were made this way.
The "immigration" in there belongs to "Immigration and Customs Enforcement", which is the full name of ICE. So it's saying that he's pro-ICE, or pro-[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. The hyphen is a bit confusing there.
...You gotta let me borrow your shower sometime.