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by atemerev 359 days ago
Oh right, just doing their job sending innocent people to foreign concentration camps. "They just follow orders".
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Yes actually they are normal people doing a job. They are fellow Americans with families and lives.

Just because it’s a law you don’t agree with, that does not make it okay to hurt the officers or their families. Do you not think that sets a bad precedent?

If there’s some other law that I disagree with is it okay if I dox the officers or threaten their families?

That’s not how democracy or the rule of law works.

Oooh, as there was a law to sent Jews to concentration camps, you couldn't hurt gestapo officers or their families, that would set a really bad precedent! Right?

Law is not arbitrary. Cruelty and unfairness need to be fought, lawful or not. "Just following orders" is not a defense. Did they finally stop to teach history and civilization in schools?

Comparison of everything you don’t like to Nazis and Hitler doesn’t work anymore. Nobody cares because one side has spent the last 8 years calling everyone they don’t like Nazis.

Immigration law has existed forever, and it will be enforced. It’s actually overwhelmingly popular with the electorate. “Unfairness” is just your opinion, just because you don’t like the law doesn’t mean it’s okay to threaten violence against innocent families.

Godwin himself suspended the law some years ago.

Yes, Nazis were also immensely popular with the electorate, and one can argue they even were democratically elected. Pushing people they didn't like to livestock cars or planes to CECOT is always popular in some circles. That doesn't make them less wrong, and when their time came, they were most properly hanged or put against the wall. As it should be.

I don't care about "one side" or "other side". I care about basic human morality. If somebody doesn't have one, they check themselves out of humans. All governments deported illegal immigrants. Some governments deported innocents. But no governments in the history of the country posted a crying woman in handcuffs on their official government Twitter account, gloating with their cruelty, until very recently. And no one before hired any officials who were giving actual Nazi salutes.

And yes, Nazis never understand why they are Nazis, or why is it wrong to be a Nazi, or why some people didn't like them. They will meet their end nonetheless.

I am not a leftist. I consider myself to be center-right. But you people have no idea about the size of the left reaction you'll get really soon. Anything even remotely right-aligned will be cursed forever and erased from memory for decades. And it's people like you who brought this. MAGA will deserve every last stone thrown at them, of course, but sadly many innocent people will suffer too.

Nothing will be forgotten. Of course, everyone who facilitated cruelty in any way is guilty.