When Mike Godwin came up with Godwin's law he just "wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust."
The words being used as well. I recall that in the preparation for the Rwandan genocide, the victim group was likened to vermin to dehumanise them (cockroaches, if I recall).
So did the US, including at the same time the Nazis did, but also regularly, for a number of different populations, starting nearly a century before there was a Nazi Party.
US immigration detention centers are now listed as concentration camps. It’s also interesting a number of them privately-owned (ie GEO Group, etc.) and also that many businesses, per article, enable their existence for blood money.
It’s the opposite of virtue-signaling if you live and work for what’s right, not out of what’s most expedient or wins popularity points, but out of integrity. Too few people these days have the courage to think deeply and act consistently regarding the big issues impact of their choices of consumption, associations and work income. (Focusing too much on tiny issues would exclude everyone.)
What should be the solution to this problem? If ICE is going to arrest parents then it seems like the only options open to ICE are keep the parents in custody with children, or keep parents in custody and put children in a separate custody. I assume ICE are putting parents and children in separate custody because they don't have suitable custody to hold both parents and children. Like if ICE are using regular jails to hold parents then it is not really possible to put children in there as well. If ICE come up with a solution to hold parents and children in custody that is suitably safe would people currently concerned about ICE find this an acceptable solution? I know other countries like Australia have special detention centers for 'illegal immigrants' that hold both parents and children.
I also understand that people might just see enforcement of immigration laws especially in regards to children as so distressful that we either should not enforce the laws or we should remove the laws. However, it seems in the past that lax enforcement has led to the situation where we have almost free immigration for people willing to work in jobs that would not require documentation (ie: unskilled jobs) and unfree immigration for people who want to work other jobs. Would people who want to see immigration laws not enforced also be willing to support completely removing immigration laws and any protectionist work policies that favour nativists so we have a better mix of immigration?
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 50.8 ms ] thread> By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.
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It’s the opposite of virtue-signaling if you live and work for what’s right, not out of what’s most expedient or wins popularity points, but out of integrity. Too few people these days have the courage to think deeply and act consistently regarding the big issues impact of their choices of consumption, associations and work income. (Focusing too much on tiny issues would exclude everyone.)
I also understand that people might just see enforcement of immigration laws especially in regards to children as so distressful that we either should not enforce the laws or we should remove the laws. However, it seems in the past that lax enforcement has led to the situation where we have almost free immigration for people willing to work in jobs that would not require documentation (ie: unskilled jobs) and unfree immigration for people who want to work other jobs. Would people who want to see immigration laws not enforced also be willing to support completely removing immigration laws and any protectionist work policies that favour nativists so we have a better mix of immigration?