Where are you going to get people willing to violate the rights of others?
Proud Boys now being monetize as ICE.
Wearing masks isn’t the problem. It’s government agents acting with violence and completely hiding their identities in the process.
They know that what they’re doing leaves them at risk of consequences of legal and social varieties. Those fears are understandable and acceptable for protesters, even on the far right. But law enforcement bears the force of the law and as such has an ethical obligation to be above board about who they are
masks = vigilantes is so common in superhero stuff so its just kinda of funny to see masks being used by the police irl, like they are always so against hiding their face and that being an issue lol
They want to think of themselves as vigilantes. Our culture (TV, movies, comics…) depicts accountable police respecting rights and following procedure as ineffective. We treat renegade cops and masked vigilantes as heroes who do what has to be done and the sort of cop who acts like Andy Griffith as ineffective, uncool, and an all around dupe.
When you look at all these people, they’re not hiding their media influence. In fact, theyre brazen to the point its really cringe actually. Cops with a punisher tattoo think of themselves as vigilantes. They joke about dirty Harry. They’ll say thst “this ain’t mayberry” to justify their hostility towards the general public. Because these are heroic masculine narratives, and the far right has been stoking those urges while the left has been aware of the reality that heroic individual narratives encourage antisocial behavior.
I’m increasingly coming to the position that we need more heroic depictions of actual civic duty. More legal dramas focusing on heroic defense attorneys with acknowledgements of the pathetic evil of loose cannon cops.
Or idk maybe we just need to mail copies of V for Vandetta to young men in the hopes that kids these days have media literacy.
These guys are following right in the footsteps of Nazi brown shirts.
Which aren’t great footsteps as Hitler found need to eliminate most of the SA in the night of the long knives, as they became a bit too belligerent and independent.
(The brown shirts where the Sturm Abteilung, under the leadership of Ernst Rohm, the were replaced by the Schutz Staffel (SS) who where personally sworn to Hitler and Himmler.)
tfw boston thinks you’re being racist
ICE have gotten so out of control. It is a shame what they have done.
They’ve been bad their whole existence. And their pre 9/11 incarnation was also bad. Look up operation (slur incoming) wetback to see what they were doing during Eke’s term.
This is STUPID! ICE ROUTINELY Hurts and Mangles Children! If you’re an ACTUAL Neo Nazi then you would HATE people who Hurt and Mangle CHILDREN!
Idk how to tell you this, but you oughta look up what the nazis did to Jewish babies.
I Love Using Random capitaliSation!!
