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KT2000

(21,022 posts)
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 09:16 PM Tuesday

They must answer for their cruelty

Those who support child separation do NOT love their own children. There is no way they could support such a thing as they did.
Anti-abortion is nothing more than abuse of women. Saving an unborn is absurd when it often results in unwanted children who suffer and they are the very voters who want to cut back care for them.

The media is not only normalizing insanity, they are normalizing cruelty and that is the line that cannot be crossed.

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They must answer for their cruelty (Original Post) KT2000 Tuesday OP
To suggest that people who do horrible things drmeow Tuesday #1
That is exactly what we need to force KT2000 Wednesday #4
They are "other" usonian Tuesday #2
I long for the day to see Rupert Murdoch and Sean Hannity dragged out of Fox HQ in handcuffs. Initech Tuesday #3

drmeow

(5,371 posts)
1. To suggest that people who do horrible things
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 09:29 PM
Tuesday

do not love their children is to fail to understand how dehumanization works. You can love your children and still dehumanize other children and be cruel to them - especially if you don't see those children. You can also love children and dehumanize their parents to such a degree that you are able to see separating them as saving them. If Ivanka had been taken away from the tangerine Mussolini at a very young age, would that be evidence that the person who separated them hated children?

KT2000

(21,022 posts)
4. That is exactly what we need to force
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:40 AM
Wednesday

Jews were the "others" and they were killed while the rest of the country sat by. What if there had been a movement saying these are human beings you are dehumanizing. That is where we are and it is up to us.
Sorry, but they do not truly love their own children. They may own them or control them but they do not truly love them.

Saw a short interview by an entertainment reporter asking Michael Bolton some inane questions during dumpster's first term. Bolton said "you should ask where the three thousand children have gone." Interviewer was speechless. ( He has always been a liberal activist.)That is how it is done - we play by our rules!

Stand up to the cruelty and don't let them parse their hate to make it OK. Don't buy into their dehumanization by getting into their sick heads - because it can be stopped by US! They've got the government but they do not have morality.

usonian

(15,109 posts)
2. They are "other"
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:29 PM
Tuesday

Divide and conquer.

For how one can love one's child and not an "other", read "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_in_the_Striped_Pyjamas

⚠️Warning.⚠️ I can't, having gotten a spoiler.

Film:

Initech

(102,808 posts)
3. I long for the day to see Rupert Murdoch and Sean Hannity dragged out of Fox HQ in handcuffs.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:35 PM
Tuesday
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