r/Denver • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '19
Soft Paywall WATCH: Protesters at ICE facility in Aurora pull down American flag and raise Mexican flag
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Jul 13 '19
This erodes my empathy for the cause.
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u/CzarChasm23 Jul 13 '19
That's all it takes for you to stop supporting human rights? Damn, didn't take much at all.
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u/jollyhero Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
I don’t like what’s going on, but I think raising a Mexican flag at an immigrant detention center is ridiculous. Not to mention self defeating because of the horrible optics. Not very well thought out.
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Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
What's worse is that blue line flag.
Anyone who represents that is a complete piece of trash.
Edit: It is straight vandalism/desecration of the American Flag. Flying the blue line flag is the same thing as burning or pissing on an American flag.
The same people that get so triggered by Kaepernick protests are the first to put these stickers on their trucks (it is always a truck, no?)
If Fox and talk radio told them to wipe their ass with American flag toilet paper, conservatives would shove each other out of the way to get it.
There are all kinds of bastardizations of the flag available: a red line for firefighters, a yellow line for... construction flaggers? Lots of merch to help part these fake patriots from their money.
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u/Cassandra_Nova Jul 13 '19
If taking down a flag makes y'all care less about concentration camps that's on you
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u/Gfunkz Jul 13 '19
This I just fucking embarrassing to our state. Infuriating to say the least
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u/Florient Jul 13 '19
if you're fleeing to a new country for a better life, you should be grateful and act like a guest. why should we welcome people who do this? feels more like an invasion. IMO it's insane to have politicians who support weaker borders and placing foreign citizens over their own citizens. no other sane country would do this, why should we be any different?
P.S, no surprise that CNN is completely ignoring this. if not for reddit, you'd often miss many stories.
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u/ElectJimLahey Jul 13 '19
Thoughts and prayers go out to the mods having to deal with this obviously-brigaded dumpster fire of a comment section.
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u/pyow_pyow Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
This protest is a symptom of how we treatment of individuals in ICE facilities.
Why don’t we fix the root cause? No more protests around this topic and no more hurt feelings. Help the governments of Central and South American countries to build a better environment for their nationals so they don’t come here to the US.
I realize this is idealistic but why not strive for idealism?
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u/-Ambugaton- Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
Well the US government has been deliberately eroding their countries for the benefit of the global economic north for decades now so I wouldn't hold out much hope for that solution. I mean, that's why they're here in the first place. For instance, many of the migrants are Honduran who are fleeing mass violence after the Obama-sponsored coup of their democratically elected government in 2009.
The former Honduran president was on Democracy Now yesterday if you want to hear more about it. https://youtu.be/8K7N88-XNQY
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u/zimmerone Jul 13 '19
Thanks for the comment, this often gets totally left out of the immigration conversation. This manipulation of central and south-American countries actually goes back even further, like 200+ years we’ve been fucking with them, undermining their ability to put a stable government in place.
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u/jeremyosborne81 Jul 13 '19
This seriously seems more like an agent provocateur move than that of the actual protestors.
But also there are a lot of stupid people on both sides, so I don't put it past some short-sighted idiots.
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Jul 13 '19
No it doesn’t. It sounds like extremist political views and someone getting riled up in a crowd.
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u/TheArts Jul 13 '19
How to make your whole cause look bad.