re: #127 ipsos
I have to admit, I don’t get the MS-13 thing (aside from that it’s being pushed HARD by Fox). One of the trolls on the thread told me I wanted my daughter to get raped by someone from MS-13. You’d think, from the way they talk about it, that our streets are being overrun by (SCARY BROWN) gang members.
It’s a gang. They’re criminals. We have law enforcement, and I trust our law enforcement professionals to get a grip on this particular set of criminals. I’m not going to set my hair on fire about this particular subset of crime just because the White House is calling them names. How in everliving fuck does that help ANYTHING?
You know what pisses me off about the MS-13 thing? It’s that it’s obviously the Trump and right’s way of scapegoating Latinos. I’m pretty familiar with MS-13. I grew up in a town with a sizable El Salvadoran population. In fact, the only murder in my time there that I remember was committed by a MS-13 member. However, like you I trust our LEO and unlike what the people in that thread did, I don’t hold all El Salvadroans to blame for it. They just don’t get how dehumanizing rhetoric is dangerous. I don’t care if they are gang members. When you deprive someone of their shared humanity, you ignore what actual evil is.