I did know a former brownshirt (my neighbour when i was a kid in the late 80s, early 90s), and i often talked to him about his time back then, before the war. He was quiet a nice dude, you couldn’t imagine that he spend his youth beating jews and having street fights with communists… but this is another story.
What stuck in my mind from this conversations was that he and the other brownshirts were PROUD of what they were doing, they left their home in uniform and returned to it in uniform. They paraded in uniforms and it was simply KNOWN who they were. I think the best analogy for today would be getting a gang tattoo to your face and walking around with it in public - there is no easy going back.
This tells me, that the ICE guys (are there any women employed?) are not really convinced that they are doing “the right thing”, that they want to have a way back into normal society if their experiment fails.
Brown shirts? Not so much, you swore to an ideology of you did it for money or just makes you selfish, hateful and greedy and I’m not actually sure that’s better.
Yeah neat, the ideology in this case was authoritarianism and racism. You sign on to that when you swear to it, excuses are kinda useless at that point.
The article is on point.
I did know a former brownshirt (my neighbour when i was a kid in the late 80s, early 90s), and i often talked to him about his time back then, before the war. He was quiet a nice dude, you couldn’t imagine that he spend his youth beating jews and having street fights with communists… but this is another story.
What stuck in my mind from this conversations was that he and the other brownshirts were PROUD of what they were doing, they left their home in uniform and returned to it in uniform. They paraded in uniforms and it was simply KNOWN who they were. I think the best analogy for today would be getting a gang tattoo to your face and walking around with it in public - there is no easy going back.
This tells me, that the ICE guys (are there any women employed?) are not really convinced that they are doing “the right thing”, that they want to have a way back into normal society if their experiment fails.
A lot of them are just doing it for money and a sense of purpose… like most jobs.
Brown shirts? Not so much, you swore to an ideology of you did it for money or just makes you selfish, hateful and greedy and I’m not actually sure that’s better.
Ideology is a sense of purpose. Most human beings are selfish, hateful, and greedy. Regardless of their politics.
Yeah neat, the ideology in this case was authoritarianism and racism. You sign on to that when you swear to it, excuses are kinda useless at that point.
Everything about everything that all of them are doing screams “shame”. The thing people say they don’t have.