I vaguely remember writing a whole thread about how what was originally the very specific way we talked about the detention centers at the border would morph over time into "children separated from families"

We had loads of context and debate about concentration camp terminology, appropriate usage of the term, etc, and it turns out some pretty respected authorities felt the comparison to be totally apt

All of that recall of history, and then the photos that confirmed, continue to confirm, that that's what these places look like, like the Nazi Germany you see in movies

Is it easier to ignore our own continued complicity (excepting, eg, large Jewish groups insisting that this continue to meet resistance) if we euphemize it as something that's happening to one family, in a vacuum, once?

Is it that the public at large didn't see themselves in those photos, in those cages, so there's a need to re-personalize it contextually? I mean, it's probably a ton of things including pure exhaustion

I guess it's also the fact that some people are easily bullied by morally empty vessels whose sole contribution to the conversation is something like just saying concentration camps sarcastically and making the jerk off motion

The amount of casual, business as usual inhumanity that just this country, even just this large city, generates, is emotionally staggering. Like, physically knock you down because of feelings staggering

And sometimes you think "fuck, we're just letting it happen," and that's good, that's a highly moral instinct, but also, capitalism is an inherently predatory system which is what makes it so great at enabling "hidden" authoritarianism

How are you going to plan and/or show up to a protest when you need to work three jobs just to feel like you're not falling too far behind

The idea of providing you with tradeable currency on the basis of your sacrifice of time is ludicrous because life isn't anything other than a bag of time that you can't see the bottom of

Like, you have no idea if you're going to be old enough to retire at whatever age they say you're allowed to, so you can't know how much a unit of time is "worth"

If it's tragically short, then that time is priceless, probably. Having that knowledge, there is no dollar amount you would trade for that very short window of life. It's just assumed, full stop, that everyone's time is, by default, cheaper than priceless. How can they know that

That's the trade-off you never agreed to, were conditioned not to even consider, because capitalism is a system that's built on exploitation, uninformed consent

See, good luck untangling racism from fascism and capitalism, if you're a class-first adherent. I get it, rich people who are darker than you make you mad, you can stop yelling already