Colour Me Criminal

Honestly, it's even worse than racism. It's just full on indiscriminate cruelty. I've seen people not caring even if they're white, just zero empathy and full-throated cheerleading. They just tell themselves "they're criminals" and don't want to accept the reality that's staring them in the face — probably because of the implication (that they've been downplaying MAGA's words and actions for so long while "alarmist leftists" were trying to warn them, making them complicit in the horrors of today).
- It's cruelty for racism's sake, they're white but poor and uneducated, so it must be the fault of the browns and the libs, anyone but themselves.
  
  That's certainly a part of it, especially the performative cruelty to own the libs. Though I think it goes beyond one group targeting another. It feels like a broad generic metastasized bigotry: a low-trust society full of people so high on their own grievances that they love nothing more than taking revenge on strangers. Sure, racism makes it more likely they target minorities, but that doesn't mean everyone else is safe. When people are this paranoid, they're just looking for reasons to blame anybody who gives them a bad "vibe" (which is most people). And they revel in it.
  I know it's not everyone behaving like this, and yes some do it more than others (e.g. uneducated white men), but it sure feels like so many people of all races/genders/etc. are fine just outsourcing their cruelty to the regime. It doesn't matter if the targets are one race or the other, they hate them all the same (they'll make up reasons on the spot) because they've learned either to take sadistic pleasure in the cruelty itself (i.e. the cruelty is the point and the target is just the "object" the cruelty is applied to, feeling just as good to them when it's a brown Venezuelan man or a white Canadian woman) or simply to ignore it, excuse it and just not care.
  It's like Orwell's two minutes of hate, all the time and for no reason.

Correction
they’re being sent to this mound

How can they be criminals if they have no trial?
- I mean wouldn’t someone that’s here legally be able to prove it with a green card? Isn’t it like a physical thing like our American passport for example? That’s what I would think.
- Because criminals don't deserve due process! My government told me so! I am very smart! Checkmate, libs!
  VERY big /s
- Appeal to Authority Fallacy.
  "If a cop says you're guilty, you must be a criminal"
  🤦‍♂️
- Because some people think that the police using their power against you makes you automatically wrong and evil. We call those people bootlickers.
- Because habeas corpus applies only to those with sufficient privilege.
- I think "criminal" can just mean someone who has committed a crime while not having been in a trial convicted of it
  
  Don’t spread that idea, that’s how we got here.
  The law is that a person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. (Yes, yes I know “for now” and the rule of law has ended you pedants let me have my modicum of hope.)
  For decades people have been “convicting” others in the court of public opinion which has caused the general public to think they know better than a judge and jury while only having information from hearsay, rumors, and the news. That leads them to disregard court findings and believe people to be guilty who are not and people to be innocent who are not. So people who they don’t like are going to prison in El Salvador and people they do like are president.

There should be a second sticker being covered under white that reads "rich".
- Not for the trumpster bubble. He would be the marionette controlled by Rupert Murdoch

This is just Trump and the Central Park 5 all over again. They're guilty because Trump feels they're guilty. The fact they're not actually guilty doesn't matter.
If you're against authoritarianism, you should demand a trial and not just some schmuck politician labeling you a criminal being enough to send you to your death in some foreign prison.
The fact that there's not a uproar from the don't tread on me crowds just reinforces the idea that they don't see these people as like them. If this was some redneck that was randomly pointed at and said he's a criminal and then deported to a foreign prison they would be upset. The fact that there aren't just shows you that they see these guys as "the other". And why do they see him as the other? That's the question this cartoon is trying to answer....

Then why Trump fears going to court to prove his accusations? He declared them terrorists, so he can pursue deportations under INA, which entitles the deportees to a court hearing, yet he invoked a wartime 1798 law specifically to avoid having to prove his hypothesis.

- you can say that again

Pizzacake is such a shit comic.
- I'm pretty new to Lemmy and not familiar with Pizzacake, even though I was on Reddit for years (never really went to r/all, just my curated feed). They seem pretty divisive here. Can you fill me in on them? Is it just the artwork, or is there some back story I don't know about?
  
  Her points are typically very surface level, blatantly obvious, and playing to the gallery. There's no subtlety or nuance.
  Also, her art is awful.
  
  I personally don't like the style. If i remember, many of the content just didn't make sense, more of a personal viewpoint. Anyone that made any critique/complaint was quickly met with attitude from OP/artist.
- I left reddit because it is far too common to see this dog shit comic on or near the front page
  
  Big pile of dog shit.

This actually harms the movement, just like when people posts lists of african americans killed by police in traffic stops and in their homes but convienently excluded the 7 out of 10 such individuals who were white.
Yes, MAGA is racist, minorities are all at particularly higher risk, but the administration is also dangerous to those poor stupid white people.
- Calling Trump supporters racist harms the movement? What movement are you talking about? The MAGA movement?
  
  I see you didn't make it half way into my two paragraph comment. I am disappointed but I somewhat understand. If you give me another chance you will see that I called them racist in my comment.
  When you see images like this of people who were sent from the USA to El Salvador prisons because of affiliation, completely random tattoos of trains, where they happened to live, etc and the first thought in your head was "because they're not white" I would think you wete completely mental.

- It has been proven that Trump is a violent rapist. I'd rather have an alleged gang member, who has obviously reformed, on the streets than an insane felon ruling the country like a tyrant.
- It has been proven that he is a part of MS 13
  Given that the previous sentence says the opposite, I can’t tell - is this a typo?
  Also, what would change if they gave each gang member a trial and showcased their crimes before sending them off? Skipping due process and failing to share any evidence publicly smells very much like they were not actually criminals to me.
- You’re right, we should use our biases and opinions about the nature of this situation based on sensationalist news instead of due process.