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  • can@sh.itjust.works
    69·
    4 days ago

    Melyssa Rivas, who lives in the area, captured the whole thing on camera.

    “It looked like a full on kidnapping scene out of a movie, it was scary,” Rivas said. "“My dad has papers, he has his citizenship but he looks just like that man. He’s a full citizen. They stereotyped that man.”

    This is heartbreaking.

    It’s a sad confirmation of what I always feared the USA really was.

    This stain on the American brand will long outlive Trump.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      5·
      3 days ago

      I use Germany (appropriately, I think) as my tool for comparison.

      It took Germany generations to overcome the pariah status and national shame caused by Hitler. Granted, the U.S. hasn’t started a war or Holocaust (yet), but we’re directly supporting and encouraging one, and the mass deportations are a sort of “Holocaust lite”. Plus, I think there’s a good chance that we’ll end up attacking Iran.

      It’s going to take about sixty years of continuous, uninterrupted “good behavior” for the U.S. to regain any credibility, and that’s just counting what Trump has pulled so far. Still, I don’t think the U.S. will ever be able to completely outlive this.