(07-02-2019 08:00 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  And I thought the left was the group who was supposed to be a bunch of snowflakes who got their feelings hurt over words...

I do agree a bit with OO, though, that broadly labeling groups, especially with inflammatory labels, can do more bad than good. I don’t pay close enough attention to the actual language of how some politicians describe CBP, and whether they describe the entire organization as bad, or if they explicitly state that there are some bad apples in the organization.

But man, OO’s response to this group is rather galling. This is clearly the type of behavior that should be condemned, given the roles that these members have chosen to fill and the responsibilities they have been given, regardless of the mean names these people have been called by their opponents. Instead of justifying the racist and misogynistic posts that were made, maybe it would be best to recognize that there are bad actors in the CBP, but that we should focus on removing them from the force, so the good actors can get the recognition they deserve for serving along the border.

There are definitely CBP agents who treat the illegal aliens they apprehended humanly and go home and read Dr. Seuss to their kids. There are also definitely CBP agents who mistreat the illegal aliens they apprehend and don’t think about it for a second.

Why the bolded? Why "definitely"?

I guess you could say there are "definitely" DMV clerks who are ruder to blacks than whites. But we cannot prove it.

Think of the BP agents as guards at the Harris county jail. Think the guards don't make jokes about the inmates?

Or as Secret Service agents. Maybe they make jokes about their protectees?

All those group, jokes or not, do their duty. DSo does the BP.

Hard to consider them as a 50% racist group, especially since most of them are either Hispanic themselves or related to hispanics, and all of them work with Hispanics, and live in a mostly Hispanic community. But if the word of a NYC congresswoman is to be believed, they are worse than Hitler's Brownshirts. Maybe they answer employment ads emphasizing sadism and bigotry as requirements.

The BP has been under attack ever since they became the instrument of Trump's border policy. People who hate Trump (or his policy) have been attacking them and their efforts to enforce US law, ever since, and a large part of the attack is to label them as heartless thugs, and now to label detention centers as concentration camps. 93 has bought this. I don't.