Imagine being a human being that breaks into a child’s home and abducts them
…and that being your job
…and you being okay with that
Traitors and Nazis
Our society is based off of jobs being a sign of good moral character. It’s a perversion of the idea that productive labor is a sign of good moral character. Something that comes from humans benefiting as a species from it. Someone that works hard for the tribe is held in high respect and honored. Someone that is lazy and does not work is shunned or abandoned.
What people do is they take this idea of labor as fundamentally good and project it onto their wage job. Saying “just doing my job” to any moral conflict they might feel. It gives them permission in their minds to do what would normally be unjustifiable. “I’m just one person” to other conflicts that arise. Until they don’t even have to do that anymore. They reach a world view that aligns with and rationalizes this contradiction.
There is a major difference between doing wage labor jobs, that fundamentally alienate the worker from the material benefits of their labor, and what we associate with morally positive labor; that connects you to those that benefit from your work. There is no human relationship or benefit available for wage labor. How “hard” they work is at most (but often times not even) reflected in their paycheck.
In an example. The Amazon worker packages items. They have no relationship to the workers that made that item and have no connection to the people that will benefit from owning that item. Their relationship starts and ends with the wage they receive for packaging that item. Thinking about the conditions of the workers that made that item is not beneficial to them. Thinking about how the person buying that item is not beneficial to them. They are completely alienated from the relationships of production that form our economy.
The Amazon worker doesn’t have the power and use of the state violence behind them, but the fundamental alienation still exists.
For the Police and ICE agents this alienation forms their relationship with those subject to state violence as objectives to be overcome to “doing their job”. Their job is easier and less taxing if they dissociate their victims, or even see them as “lesser” or not human.
These ICE agents have connected to the ideas of Fascism that allow them to “do their job” and not even consider what they are doing to children. They have normalized it so much that they even seek out this form of wage job and prefer it.
A lot of them are okay with it.
The US Federal government is now at war with the US population.
Same class war, different front
Another ABC7 interviewee ducked upon hearing flash bangs detonate, and was then distressed by the sight of children detained. “They was bringing the kids down too, had them zip-tied to each other,” she said. “That’s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘f*** them kids.’”
A witness of the same name told the Chicago Sun-Times it was “heartbreaking” to see “kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers.”
If this witness is telling the truth (and I have no reason to doubt them based on videos of how ICE employees have terrorized people), then this is some incredibly fucked-up shit. These agents are getting bolder and bolder in their contempt for people with each passing day.
Sooner or later that contempt will come back around. Some of them will not enjoy that day.
“Won’t someone think of the children!” The Republican screams while zip tying children.
ICE continues to be a disgusting organization. No shock here.
ICE: MS-13 is too scary! I’ll go for the helpless maid instead!
Trump’s Gestapo should face tribunals for crimes against humanity.
What the fuck happened with the water? This place didn’t seem great, but there were some apartments with nicer floors that clearly weren’t flooded before the raid and were flooded after the raid.
Death to America
