If those additional examples are bullshit made up stories it’s exactly the same thing. You lose credibility and it gives ammunition to the “It’s not happening” crowd when they can point to made up stories.
I don’t know if this post is true or not and I do believe ICE is doing shit like this but we should all be wary of where we’re getting our information and what we’re spreading around. Stick to verifiable sources. Not tweets designed to tug at your heartstrings.
Holding plausible things that are consistent with normal actions to the same standards as ridiculous and blatant lies because the blatant liars can use that against us somehow is stupid. They don’t care about reality or how anyone else does anything, they are just going to lie about it anyway.
Sure, people should be skeptical of unverified claims from social media. That is correct to a point, we also saw the actual non-violent protesting in Oregon on social media first. Lots of the reports of people being disappeared by ICE came through social media first, because reporting takes some time to do the verification. Now that it is verified that ICE does these things maybe it isn’t unrealistic to take them at face value no matter where they are coming for.
If social media posts start reporting ICE doing mass murder, sure that should be taken with a grain of salt. But disappearing people and being shitty to family members? Just another day for ICE.
If those additional examples are bullshit made up stories it’s exactly the same thing. You lose credibility and it gives ammunition to the “It’s not happening” crowd when they can point to made up stories.
I don’t know if this post is true or not and I do believe ICE is doing shit like this but we should all be wary of where we’re getting our information and what we’re spreading around. Stick to verifiable sources. Not tweets designed to tug at your heartstrings.
Holding plausible things that are consistent with normal actions to the same standards as ridiculous and blatant lies because the blatant liars can use that against us somehow is stupid. They don’t care about reality or how anyone else does anything, they are just going to lie about it anyway.
Sure, people should be skeptical of unverified claims from social media. That is correct to a point, we also saw the actual non-violent protesting in Oregon on social media first. Lots of the reports of people being disappeared by ICE came through social media first, because reporting takes some time to do the verification. Now that it is verified that ICE does these things maybe it isn’t unrealistic to take them at face value no matter where they are coming for.
If social media posts start reporting ICE doing mass murder, sure that should be taken with a grain of salt. But disappearing people and being shitty to family members? Just another day for ICE.