Cassandra is only carbon nowDec 23

I finally watched the 60 Minutes video about CECOT, and I have three immediate thoughts:

• This is absolutely horrific, and it is being done to actual humans.
• The video goes out of its way over and over again to mitigate any critique of the Trump administration or its horrific policies. Why did Bari Weiss try to bury this?
• The video keeps stressing that most of the Trump administration's victims weren't gang members, but so fucking what? You shouldn't torture *anyone*.

Gerben VosDec 23
Show threadCassandra is only carbon now

It's really the third one that keeps me up at night the absolute most. This level of inhuman cruelty is institutionalized in American culture so completely that *even in a report on human rights violations*, journalists still bake in the "and they didn't even deserve it" meme.

That is how this happened. That is how, if left unchecked, this will happen again. That is the core germ of the idea that is used to justify all manner of cruelties — the truly vile idea that some humans deserve it.

Dec 23 at 6:05amWeb
Show threadCycling StuDec 23
@xgranade exactly. No one should be treated like that. The site was like the worst of battery hen farming. With added torture elements that the UN says are unacceptable
Show threadMiro CollasDec 23
@xgranade The US is fine with that kind of thing. eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
If it happens under the control of other countries, the US cares even less, as it isn't directly responsible
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse - Wikipedia