Federal immigration agents held a teenage boy at gunpoint Wednesday and bloodied him up, before they realized they had the wrong person.
Federal immigration agents held a teenage boy at gunpoint Wednesday and bloodied him up, before they realized they had the wrong person.
What’s the benefit of not referring to ICE as ICE? What they’re doing should reflect on the organization as a whole. They should not get to say “well they weren’t our agents, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
It’s giving white supremacy a normalized name. Most people don’t know it’s all racists. Maybe KKK-ICE?
The Venn diagram of “people who don’t know ICE is racist” and “people who would be okay with ICE being racist” is just two concentric circles. By this point, if they don’t already know, it’s because they have intentionally avoided the information. Willful ignorance isn’t going to be solved by referring to ICE by a different name. If anything, it will only enable the willful ignorance by allowing them to go “but that’s not actually ICE!”
Anyone who doesn’t know it’s all racists would love the fact that it’s all racists.
I hope cameras are rolling when the first one gets domed.
But that creates a distinction the people in charge can use to deny what’s happening. Now and in the future. “It’s a small group of bad apples, most ICE agents aren’t like that.” Etc. It’s all of them. The whole agency has to go. For that purpose, I think continuing to just call them ICE is useful.