myrmepropagandistFeb 3

This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.

He records them and shares it with the world.

What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?

Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA0

PEERTUBE option: https://kinowolnosc.pl/w/p/av2NQ5ug2M7TgJzkSvyzi6

Kindergarten teacher wants kindergartener deported

YouTube
Show threadMisuse CaseFeb 3
@futurebird “Kindergarten teacher wants to deport their students” sounds monstrously unbelievable but I knew someone whose wife was a teacher and apparently complained about all the ESL students in her school. I don’t know what those students’ immigration status was but she and her husband definitely *thought* they were undocumented.
Show threadSpread The TruthFeb 3
@MisuseCase @futurebird my daughter a grade school teacher has heard teachers talk this way as well
Show threadAaron In MinnesotaFeb 3
@spreadthetruth @MisuseCase @futurebird I don't want to steal-man this horrible behavior, but I do wonder about the under-funding of public schools and teachers and how much it contributes via a scarcity / 'taking up resources' angle. Like, is this evidence how austerity breeds hate or somesuch, I guess
Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 4

@aeischeid @spreadthetruth @MisuseCase

I teach at a school with a bunch of grants and things and some of the brightest most neurotic kids in the city HOWEVER I have all kinds of teacher friends at all kinds of schools. Schools without nearly enough staff or supplies and lunches that someone should build a little fence around and hang up a "Superfund" sign.

I do not know any teachers like this.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 4

@aeischeid @spreadthetruth @MisuseCase

The worst thing I ever heard a teacher say about students was this veteran NYC public school teacher in the Bronx who said "well you know they are from the crack baby generation that's why they can't concentrate"

No. They can't concentrate because they are 6th graders in a class with 32 students.

That is too many sixth graders. Have you met one? I have. Under 20 ALWAYS.

I yelled at him and he walked it back.

Show threadAaron In Minnesota
@spreadthetruth @MisuseCase @futurebird I known a few teachers more from smaller towns in the midwest, and while generally less racist /conservative than others in that zone, I could definitely still see some of them falling into taxpayerism type thinking where that metality fuels their latent racism
Feb 4 at 3:05amTusky
Show threadAaron In MinnesotaFeb 8

@spreadthetruth @MisuseCase @futurebird similar idea said a different way - zero sum -> reactionary.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3meeoju7lsc23

David Roberts (@volts.wtf)

Lots that is grotesque here, but I think the key thing to notice is the zero-sum worldview: if we take in a 5yo immigrant, this somehow displaces or harms at 5yo American kid. There's a finite pool of "American" to distribute. A zero-sum worldview is the molten core of reactionary thinking. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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