Why does character matter when it comes to oppressed minorities?

[EnergizedLib]

Character doesn’t matter for them when it comes to their cult leader, but it does matter when


- George Floyd was murdered (tried excusing it because of his past)

- Ahmaud Arbery was killed for no reason (tried defending it through his past)

- Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported without due process (bringing up his past wrongdoings)

A person who makes bad choices is still entitled to certain legal protections and you can’t just do literally whatever you want to them just because of their mistakes in life.

We’re not defending illegals or criminals. We’re defending legal rights.

[choie]

1. You're right of course.

But I would suggest that you may want to stop using the term "illegals". People aren't "illegal". They're undocumented.

[EnergizedLib]

2. What about people who happen to be here illegally?

[choie]

3. then they are people who are here illegally.

They are not "illegals". That's a repugnant way of demeaning people.

[choie]

5. And if you're going to say that it is just semantics...

words are important, they are used to describe and frame. As we've seen by the monster we have as president, language matters.

[unblock]

6. We don't even consider that for any other crime.

A murderer isn't "an illegal" the act may have been illegal, but the person is not "an illegal".

Same for a robber or anything else. Only for immigration, which involves quite a lot of red tape, do they call human beings "illegal", even if it may just be a bureaucratic error or accident.

[Cirsium]

8. Human beings

Call them "human beings."

[Trust_Reality]

4. A nation is built on principles and can quickly fall apart without them.

(Seen on BlueSky)

[EnergizedLib]

7. We're witnessing that in real time

Every week gets scarier.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. It has always been like this.

If a minority does good or is the "first", then they are called out by some to the tune of "why does it matter". Others will praise them, but it is backhanded in someways in that it is more of "See? There are good ones!". There are those, of course, who recognize the importance of a minority succeeding or being first, sadly, IMO, they seem to be fading fast.

When a minority does "bad", of course, it is a representation of ALL minorities in that group, and said members are attacked, called to repudiate the "bad one", or some other set of parlor games in order to appease the majority and their dingleberry hangers-on.