Gut check me?

[nwhiker]

Can someone -if anyone is reading, LOL- gut check me on this one?

This skeet was written by someone I both like and respect, and someone I consider to be an educator, and a damn good one, as well as a gifted scientist.





This seriously sits wrong with me. It feels... completely different, and that comparing a hideous government created situation with what appears to be a stranger abduction is rather insensitive.

ICE is killing people, both on the street and in custody. Not going to deny this. However, their primary goal is not murder and/or murder and abduction. Their intent, while nefarious from a human and humane standpoint, is not criminal and is at least "legal adjacent".

These things are not the same. The probability of getting a loved one out of detention alive is much higher than the probability of getting someone back alive after a stranger abduction.

So yeah. Both are bad, but tbh, I'd rather my loved one taken by ICE than some random person in the middle of the night.

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[camelsamba]

I understand where you are coming from, and I agree with you. I also think I can see where the other person'is coming from though. It's like that old saw, "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." Maybe they were trying to draw attention back to what is going on in Minnesota and Chicago and lots of other places: if you're going to care about this famous person who you've only seen on TV, are you also willing to care about all these other nameless families you also don't know? Similarly, I saw some posts that were adding other names and pictures alongside Renee Good and Alex Pretti (in a "say their names" kind of way). I will admit I did not bother to look them up, but I suspect they weren't US citizens (at the very least they weren't white) and those people were trying to draw attention to "where was your outrage when non-white people were being killed?"