The Rot we pretend not to see
My dear wife showed me a video a few days ago that I can’t seem to shake.
It’s not that I’m truly surprised. I know these people exist. I know evil walks among us. I just never imagined one of them would be teaching toddlers their ABCs.
The video is viral at this point, and anyone can find it with a little digging. In a strange way, I’m glad it exists, because it puts a mirror in front of those who claim moral superiority. More importantly, it exposes just how rotten things have become in the United States.
In the video, a kindergarten teacher decides it would be a good idea—perfectly fine, even—to call an ICE hotline on her students’ parents. In her mind, she’s doing her civic duty. She’s “cleaning” the system of parasites, of the unwanted, of the “illegals.” What she doesn’t realize is that she’s calling a fake number.
A comedian set up the hotline to expose a simple truth: the evil isn’t carried out only by people in uniform. The rot, as I’ve come to think of it, can live next door. It can be the friendly face from church. And apparently, it can be the woman entrusted with teaching your children.
One of the most disturbing moments in the call comes when the comedian, posing as an ICE agent, calmly repeats her intentions back to her. Suddenly, she’s uncomfortable.
“You make it sound like I’m a bad person,” she says.
All he’s done is clarify her own words: that she wants her students’ parents deported because they’re Hispanic and seem out of place. She explains that one was born in Honduras. She even admits she took it upon herself to look through their files.
I don’t have the words to fully express the disgust I feel when I think about this woman. All of a sudden, the stories of World War II, the rise of the Führer, begin to make terrifying sense to me. I’ve often wondered how things ever got that bad back then—how ordinary people allowed it to happen.
That mystery unraveled for me in a single phone call.
There are truly evil people in this world. Bigots. Racists. Xenophobes. People who were always this way, just waiting for someone with enough power to tell them, “It’s okay. Let it out.”
I don’t have solutions. I don’t even have hope for people like this anymore.
How do we ever recover from something like this?
Please...someone tell me.
— MenO
This teacher wasn't allowing it to happen. She was making it happen.
It is considered hyperbole by some to compare this to fascism in the 1930s. It is not hyperbole. I never underestimate the ability of people to be kind and to love, and I never underestimate the ability of some to be cruel and to hate.
We are in a very rough spot right now. Those of us who live in the U.S. may need courage to speak up, to resist. I'm not sure what measures will be waiting to deal with opposition in the future.
i fear we are headed to a civil war... nothing else seems clearer to me
I hope you're wrong. I think that is actually the goal of the people in charge right now. They know their most extreme policies will not (do not) pass muster with the majority of the people, so they have to seize power. Armed conflict would give them that opportunity.
Terrible! We are becoming a new Soviet Union where people rat out each other to an oppressive government...
precisely... the irony of "the right"
It is sad, but not surprising. I am sure there are all kinds of informants giving them information and reporting on neighbors, fellow church goers, classmates, co-workers, etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/leftist/comments/1qzw8mz/teacher_reports_immigrant_parents_to_ice_how/
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I keep thinking about the fact that this lady got exposed because she called the wrong number... How many people like her, who call the real ICE and are willing to betray humanity and ruin lives in exchange for a pat on the head from a xenophobe with a badge.