ngl there is racist connotations in the way people label ICE as "masked thugs" or "gang members". by doing this you're disassociating ICE from state institutions & associating them with racialized terms of criminality in order to reinforce the idea that they're dangerous. In reality they're just cops & this is just cop shit.
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[–] 7 points 9 months ago

That's your bias. I had no issue imagining white thugs. In fact there are so little black people where I live that I wouldn't associate them as thugs. Poor? Sure, that's social conditioning, but thugs no.

Calling ICE thugs is appropriate, albeit maybe too light. They are the KKK trash. That sounds more appropriate than Gestapo.

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