(07-03-2025 12:14 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: That is the way certain posters here use it. If X meant it differently, let's hear his explanation of who exactly are the brown people he thinks Republicans want to see eaten by alligators.
Who do you think X thinks will be the primary residents of the everglades facility? Swedes? Japanese? Russkies? AFAIAC, the race/skin color does not matter. What matters is documents, showing compliance with law. According to X, that makes me a racist. Who (what race or nationality or ethnicity) exactly am I racist against? the Undocumentarians, illegallly entering here from Undocumentistan?
Here are a few very easy (mainly 'yes / no') questions for you.
1. Do you support ICE picking up and detaining a citizen, any citizen, born in the United States, for merely 'walking while brown', and demanding that he show ICE 'documents', demanding he show 'compliance with law'?
2. Do you think that ICE is actively enforcing detentions against *any* Caucasian set of illegals?
3. Do you think that ICE is actively staging mass raids based on any groups of *any* Caucasian set of illegals?
4. Is it prudent that a Hispanic citizen in the current day should have to carry proof of citizenship with himself -- simply because....?
5. Is it prudent that any Caucasian citizen in the current day should have to carry proof of citizenship with himself -- simply because....?
6. If your answer to question 4 above differs from that to question 5 above, what is the main, singular differentiator between questions 5 and 4 above. Hint -- there is difference of exactly one word.
Here are my answers to my questions --
1. No, not at all.
2. No.
3. No.
4. Yes, if a Hisapnic citizen doesnt want to mess around with a multi-hour detention.
5. No.
6. Hispanic <> Caucasian. There seems to be a very racial underpinning to all the enforcement. The level that 'walking while brown' seems to be occurring more and more often with the very increased and documented levels of Hispanic US citizens having less than 'friendly chat' encounters with ICE.
Yes, there is *absolutely* a racial component going on. And when there are decent size numbers of US citizens being 'encountered' and 'detained' (in the investigation sense), it seems pretty obvious that improper means are being utilized in the assessment of probable cause. And using improper means based on race, or racial characteristics is a classic definition of 'racism' in my book.
And for all your hand waving about 'who will be the residents' of the Everglades place, we all know it will be the Central Americans, Mexicans, to a lesser extent Arabs, to that same lesser extent Africans, to that same lesser extent Asians and Indian sub-continent Asians. All having much more melatonin in their racial makups than your hand waving 'Swedes' et al. above. Imagin that.