Not to be rude, but who cares? Authoritarian governments could send a goon squad and shoot you in the face extrajudicially. Seeing they are already doing that for such severe threats to authority as being in a public space, they have no threats left to make. Edit: not making guillotine jokes is not protection.
Public opinion is the difference between some random white dudes being sympathetic and randomly interfering with ICE, and people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants
Right now public opinion on ICE is terrible, especially in democratic strongholds… which is why I as a nonwhite immigrant I was able to avoid get harassed by ICE or xenophobic mobs for over a year since he took office
If public opinion on immigrants goes down… if people start beliving in those xenophobic rhetotics… I could get lynched by my neighbors
Not to be rude, but who cares? Authoritarian governments could send a goon squad and shoot you in the face extrajudicially. Seeing they are already doing that for such severe threats to authority as being in a public space, they have no threats left to make. Edit: not making guillotine jokes is not protection.
Legality matters for the “Court of Public Opinion”
Does it? When brownshits can extrajudicially shoot innocents in the face without consequence “legal” and Public opinion loses much of its meaning.
Public opinion is the difference between some random white dudes being sympathetic and randomly interfering with ICE, and people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants
Right now public opinion on ICE is terrible, especially in democratic strongholds… which is why I as a nonwhite immigrant I was able to avoid get harassed by ICE or xenophobic mobs for over a year since he took office
If public opinion on immigrants goes down… if people start beliving in those xenophobic rhetotics… I could get lynched by my neighbors
Excellent point. Good perspective and post.
That is ICE already. I was thinking "people forming
mobswell regulated militias that actively hunt ICE mobs. That just me speaking from my privilege.who runs the courts though?
Right now, juries still decide for the actual court cases.
Exhibit A: I think they acquitted the “threw a ham sandwich dude”…