You’re not wrong. But also, the people who seem to be telling you that even bringing this whole issue up or worrying about it with any level of impassioned-ness might just be adding fuel to the bullshit, may kind of have a point I think. But yes, also, you’re not wrong.
Like I said elsewhere in this thread - the only reason it got brought up to begin with was the accusation that everyone who left Blahaj on 196 did so because they were transphobes, and I wasn’t going to just smile and take that.
Yeah. I thought about wading into a big spiteful discussion about the precise meaning of the words “transphobia” and “misgendering” and the specific way they are being defined and used in this thread, and then I thought, “You know what? Not my circus, not my monkeys. It is of no concern.”
Guys: Are you (all of you) still going to be doing big performative stinks about this on whichever side, when the rate of people going into the camps goes into the thousands, or hundreds of thousands, instead of just big handfuls like they have now? That thing the German tourist said about people screaming the whole time she was there sort of got brushed aside in passing, when I felt like it should have gotten a lot more scrutiny.
“She says it was like a horror movie. They were screaming in all different rooms. After nine days, she said she went so insane that she started punching the walls and then she’s got blood on her knuckles,” Lofving said.
Places where people are held in solitary are sometimes exactly like that. Sometimes they have people who’ve gone insane from being there, screaming the entire time, or banging on the walls for hours. I just want to know what’s up with this ICE facility. Who else is there? Why are they screaming? How many of them are there, how long have they been there?
I am not going to get answers to those questions. But I feel like the press should be spending more time on at least trying, and less on the day’s “Trump’s press secretary said Trump’s got a right to fuck your wife if he wants to” and dutiful shock and outrage.
Like I said elsewhere in this thread - the only reason it got brought up to begin with was the accusation that everyone who left Blahaj on 196 did so because they were transphobes, and I wasn’t going to just smile and take that.
Yeah. I thought about wading into a big spiteful discussion about the precise meaning of the words “transphobia” and “misgendering” and the specific way they are being defined and used in this thread, and then I thought, “You know what? Not my circus, not my monkeys. It is of no concern.”
Guys: Are you (all of you) still going to be doing big performative stinks about this on whichever side, when the rate of people going into the camps goes into the thousands, or hundreds of thousands, instead of just big handfuls like they have now? That thing the German tourist said about people screaming the whole time she was there sort of got brushed aside in passing, when I felt like it should have gotten a lot more scrutiny.
What’s that?
https://www.10news.com/like-a-horror-movie-german-tourist-detained-by-ice-says-she-spent-week-in-solitary-confinement
Places where people are held in solitary are sometimes exactly like that. Sometimes they have people who’ve gone insane from being there, screaming the entire time, or banging on the walls for hours. I just want to know what’s up with this ICE facility. Who else is there? Why are they screaming? How many of them are there, how long have they been there?
I am not going to get answers to those questions. But I feel like the press should be spending more time on at least trying, and less on the day’s “Trump’s press secretary said Trump’s got a right to fuck your wife if he wants to” and dutiful shock and outrage.