Children in cages

[Ms. Toad]

7. So it's just fine to keep children in cages, as long as

they weren't ripped from their chidren's arms? Not in any country I'm proud of.

And - my point is that the very first children in cages photos - that caused so much outrage - were from 2014 but they were used to illustrate how inhumane Trump is. No back story - just children in cages with foil blankets. We were all outraged at the image. Until we learned that the viral images were taken in 2014, and then we rationalized them away (as you are doing . . . they're not so bad because Obama didn't rip children from their parents' arms . . . he just put them in cages with foil blankets after they were already separated.

Keeping children in cages with foil blankets is horrific, no matter how they were separated from their parents. What Trump did is worse - but only by degrees, not in nature. Treatment of children in is NOT one of the strong cards for Biden - and I am not willing to rationalize away our own complicit behavior in a long, bipartisan, atrocious histroy on immigration.

And anyone who plans to use that image to condemn Trump had better (1) know the origin of the photos that are stuck in people's minda and (2) have a very clear explanation of why children in cages is OK for Obama but beyond the pale for Trump. Most people are unaware of the former, and I have yet to hear an explanation for the latter that passes the laugh test.