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Illegals and immigrants are different things. Its not fake its a person being honest about their situation and feelings.
Yeah I know that. The error of conflating the two was not mine.
The underlying point -- and I'm going to explain it because it is often left unsaid on lemmy and serves as the basis for sarcasm -- is that the motive for kicking all the "illegals" out of the country comes from a place of hate, ignorance, and fear rather than some kind of rule of law purity.
That's why it gets pointed out in an "I told you so" fashion when somebody in favor of short circuiting due process for "violent illegals" loses their legal immigrant spouse or gets their own US Citizen ass whisked away to another continent.
If it were about the law, they wouldn't want to circumvent the law to hurt the "others" faster.
aside: it sucks that every time I use an em dash in a comment it makes me wonder if people will think I use some LLM crap to compose internet comments for 17 people to read, lol
Possibly. There are problems caused by illegal immigration, as well as how America abuses legal immigrants. Just because I live in a place where multiculturalism is seen as a benefit to the community, doesnt mean everyone does.
I really dont think anyone expected how the trump admin is treating immigrants, but most right wing people won't be exposed to any media that clues them in. Thats why we see people only realize after being personally affected.
All that said, when someone changes their mind from a worse position to a better one, we should be cheering them on, not insulting and laughing at them.
Considering the audience on this platform, that hyperbolic statement is erring in the wrong direction. Not only do I bet that a majority of people reading this expected it, but I half expect to see somebody else reply "EVERYBODY expected this, you son of an honorable dame" or something like that.
I do believe that audience would have plenty of genuine "nobody expected this" reactions. Are you a recovering conservative yourself? I grew up in that world. Been there, friend.
I'm not a recovering conservative but I have a lot of compassion and empathy for that group. At a certain point I realized all the anti-conservative talk here was just as bigoted as people claim conservatives are.
I really don't like seeing posts where someone is vulnerable and honest about their life, and the responses on here are hateful and in some cases violent.
I don't understand how the people on here posting don't realize they are part of the problem.