So, I read the article, and all those stupid, blind, privileged people telling him not to worry, they’ll protect him, he’s “one of the good ones”. And they don’t understand that that’s not going to matter; once the round-ups begin, the government’s not going to care about any of that.
I keep thinking back to Hitler, who said something vaguely like, “There cannot be any exceptions. If we allow exceptions, then everyone has their ‘one good Jew’ and we’d never make any real progress.”
And yet…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bloch
Rules for thee but not for me. Same as always.
“Oops, my bad. Sorry bro… Anyway, bad things happen, but life has to continue on!”
Jennifer stacked the letters together and put them back into the folder. “You matter to people here,” she said. “Their politics might not show it, but they care about you.”
You matter to people here… in every way that doesn’t matter.
Honestly, I just don’t care anymore. I’ve spent over a decade caring, helping, warning, working and trying - in addition to decades of activism before that - and I just don’t have it in me any longer. They wanted this? Then fuck it, let it all burn.
I get it too, I’m kind of all out of fucks to give to the Sky’s of the America and just Americans in general, including my own in-laws and their extended family. So god damn myopic in their own racism and stupidity that they didn’t for one second think about their own family, gets real tiresome trying to save them from the themselves.
When a populist says, “all X are evil!” and you think, “wait, I know an X, that person’s not evil!” you have two options.
Option 1: “…therefore the populist must be wrong!”
Option 2: “…therefore that X I know must just be one of the good ones.”
#2 is short-sighted. Seriously? Of every X in this country, you just happen to know one of the good ones?
But #1 would mean that you were wrong for ever listening to that populist in the first place. So obviously #2 is the choice.
There’s gotta be some kind of deep-seeded protection mechanism in the brain that keeps people making up excuses just to avoid being wrong, because being wrong means their system of beliefs has to be torn down and rebuilt.
Yeah. I mean, I get it. Communities are formed around shared values and beliefs. If they weren’t, those communities would fracture and fall apart and they wouldn’t be communities anymore; and humans die when they’re alone. So changing your belief systems or admitting you’re wrong has an actual, measurable impact on you–on a biological level–making you feel like you’re going to die alone and your genetic line will end. It feels like an existential threat. It’s scary.
But it’s worth it; and in this big, diverse world, it’s possible to find a new community now, where it hasn’t been for most of our species’ history. We’ve grown to the point where we don’t have to follow that deep-brain worry anymore.
Some people don’t agree.
Even the comments are full of Sky’s. These people are fucking beyond stupid.
“Sky’s” ??
Could you elaborate? I’m not familiar with that term
Sky is the name of the father in law who has always supported him but voted for Trump, [“You’re not one of the bad people Trump wants to deport.”]
The stupid Father in law won’t see his grandchildren because his family gets deported or flees to another country.
Leopard meets face.
And when they get deported he won’t feel bad. He’ll feel like he did what is necessary. These people are too stupid to ever learn from their mistakes.
The article is a bit spoon fed, but I know enough of these idiots to realize it’s not a stretch. These people are afraid of everything. He mentions gangs and apocalypses and everything else that could happen.
This idiot keeps a bible in his bug out bag that he carries everywhere (not just in the car, but actually on his person.)… Like you won’t be able to find a bible if we suddenly don’t have power. $100 says this asshole has never even read the thing.
This idiot keeps a bible in his bug out bag
Preparing for the zombie apocalypse and rolling out the red carpet for fascism.
Not only that, they are aiming to end birthright citizenship. He will never see those kids again.
Yes. Thank you. I read it, and TOTALLY whiffed that Sky is his FIL.
Thank you
Are you misreading misusing sic or am I missing a typo?
I started pasting a quote and then changed it without fixing my edit.
I also want to know about the sky
The line that stuck out to me was “there’s a lot of goodness underneath.” I doubt there is.
I’m a minority that grew up in a small town and I’m more inclined to see it how Delgado sees it.
Delgado probably has the more realistic view. Jamie is holding out hope and trying to convince himself what’s happening isn’t really happening.
sigh… the leopards ate his face.
Human-interest pieces like this make me think of the human-interest pieces not being written about the kids in other countries who grew up in poverty because their parents didn’t take them into the US illegally. I sympathize with the man this article is about and I think people in his situation should receive clemency. At the very least, the ones married to American citizens should have a straightforward path to legal residence for the sake of their American spouses. With that said, I don’t think the man this article is about deserves more sympathy than all the poor foreigners who wanted to come to the USA but didn’t because the didn’t receive legal permission.
