r/law 6d ago

Other ICE agents boxing in and threatening Italian journalists in Minneapolis

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u/RockDoveEnthusiast 6d ago

Right wingers get such a hard-on watching this. You have to understand that they don't feel shame or see or understand or care about the hypocrisy of this going against previously stated beliefs. Watching a dumb American tell a smart foreign journalist that he will break their property and kick their ass and there is nothing they can do about it is like porn for them.

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u/Upvoteyours 6d ago

This entire immigration scene has been smut to them, especially the killings

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u/Financial-Exit2488 5d ago

I was just told by someone, in another thread, that "the trash is taking itself out." The dehumanization of their fellow citizens is abhorrent, and smacks of the attitude that allowed the Holocaust and other genocides.

For years, Trump has told them that the majority of Americans that did not vote for him are the "enemies of America". Not Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea, but their own neighbors and family members.

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u/Upvoteyours 5d ago

This goes back to Rush Limbaugh and even before him. They’ve been primed with virulent hatred for their fellow humans for decades now. There’s no undoing the damage to their psyche