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 threadCrazyDogLadySezPEACE

@futurebird @aeischeid @spreadthetruth @MisuseCase I think it’s an entitlement response. You don’t see it where people weren’t raised with everything they wanted within reach and the idea that everything they want is *supposed* to be within their reach.

Then the corollary becomes this deep emotional response that anything that inconveniences me is WRONG and BAD and must be ELIMINATED. Even when the most basic of reality-checks would yield a counterpoint along the lines of “this is a CHILD you have OBLIGATIONS to, remove your HEAD from your ASS.”

Feb 26 at 2:23pmWeb