United States | News & Politics

4086 readers

216 users here now

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

No pics of text

Memes are now allowed, as long as they're US centric, general political memes please see !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

Post news related to the United States.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

exposingfash@midwest.social

cm0002@infosec.pub

cm0002@lemy.lol

326

Anti-ICE commercials encouraging agents to 'walk away' set to hit the air Thanksgiving weekend (www.themirror.com)

submitted 6 months ago by CubitOom@infosec.pub to c/usa@midwest.social

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The commercials are meant to speak "directly to ICE agents who may be grappling with guilt, burnout, or moral conflict over their work" – providing a counterpoint to ICE recruitment commercials and to commercials where Noem advises migrants to self-deport.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I would empathize with the situation you describe, but I’m so cynical, I just imagine the father telling the frightened child that the friendly ice cream man was hiding a terrible secret - that he is a criminal and was here illegally; that he is taking jobs from people who need the work, and will then use the nearest white homeless person as an example of the type of person who could be working, in clean clothes, and not struggling on the streets if only we facilitate this vision of a white Christian ethno-state.

And while that narrative is complete and utter nonsense, it is a common one, and it’s one that impressionable children believe and adopt as a core part of their worldview. Many never recover from that intellectual poisoning.