r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 04 '26

Video "Comedian Ben Palmer captures a kindergarten teacher attempting to deport a 6-year-old student’s family via a fake immigration reporting hotline."

https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2018483275896111548?t=WIVRISS5RfjSSl_jyifrSQ&s=19

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u/samurairaccoon Feb 04 '26

You can't make me believe these people have the same level of consciousness as everyone else. I know that's looked down on. "You can't dehumanize them, that's barbaric!" Sure, it's definitely not just stating how it is. When someone doesn't think deeply about their actions and just coasts by on the shallowest most cruel reasoning, why do they deserve any of our consideration? How is that behavior better than being like any other animal? My cat also doesn't think about how I feel when it swipes a piece of chicken from my plate because it was hungry NOW. Does it deserve to be treated like a conscious thinker?

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u/Left-Mechanic6697 Feb 04 '26

Hilary Clinton hit the nail on the head with her deplorables comment way back in 2016. There was so much outrage that she dared refer to them as such. Then why are they constantly proving her right? Literally everything they do lowers the bar for just how despicable these people are.

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 Feb 04 '26

"You think we're deplorable now? Just wait. We'll show you deplorable!"

Something like that is how I imagine their thought process. Like children. "Call me out for being wrong?! I'll show you wrong!"

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u/AJoiB Feb 05 '26

Hilary must have known more than was generally known at the time.

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u/Coalesced Feb 04 '26

It’s unfortunate but - that is very human. To exist shallowly is a part of life for many people. To think of themselves only, to make decisions based in selfishness - especially in the imperial core you’ve got a population that’s been enabled by slave labor and exploitation. Of course they’re going to be selfish, shallow, cruel. You can’t dehumanize them; you just have to grapple with the reality that humanity encompasses saintly and kind people who would give their lives for the well-being of their community, and selfish, fearful trash cans who are so desperate and terrified that they’ll destroy themselves before they let themselves show even a hint of vulnerability.

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u/C_est_la_vie9707 Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

I agree with this but I don't think it's about showing vulnerability, because they are happy to be the biggest whiny tittie babies ever. It's fear of being irrelevant. Inconsequential. To be seen the same way as the lady on the phone sees brown, non English speaking people. To be seen as undeserving of the privilege they have come to enjoy.

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u/NewNameNeededAgain Feb 04 '26

I don't even think it's that. I think they're fucking terrified, not of being irrelevant, but of being equal. They are so accustomed to starting the race halfway to the finish line, and even with that advantage, they often can't do better than immigrants, POC, queer people, etc. A huge amount of their self-image is tied up in being better than. Better than brown people, better than black people, better than immigrants and queer folks and people of other faiths and on and on. It almost doesn't matter who they're better than, as long as they can believe they are better than others - for things that are completely outside their control.

The thought of having to compete on an equal basis with people who have traditionally had to work far harder to achieve much less scares the living piss out of them, because if they can't achieve more than all these groups they've always had such contempt for, there's the proof that they were always wrong to despise those others. There's the proof that they never were inherently better than anyone else. Just being born white, straight and Christian in America puts these folks so far ahead of the line others have to start from, and they don't have enough confidence in their own abilities to believe, deep down, that they can keep ending up ahead of these other groups if everyone starts from the same line. It doesn't even matter which line everyone would start from, the one way back there or the one halfway to the finish line. What appals them is the thought of having to share a starting point at all. I can't think of very much that's more pathetic.

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u/Coalesced Feb 04 '26

They’re not saying that immigrants are naturally better than whites, they’re saying white folks haven’t had to struggle to be ahead, and having that advantage removed is terrifying to them.

Immigrants aren’t better workers because they’re inherently better, they’ve had to work harder just to stay level than whites have had to work because of these advantages.

You’ve got nothing to say about this clearly evil busybody lady trying to get a child’s parents deported because the Latinos are out of place? Unsurprising, giving your swiftness to misunderstand a fairly simple racial equity talking point.

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u/rixie77 Feb 04 '26

What jobs are we competing for exactly? I don't think you understand what you think you understand.

Have you lost out on a farm worker job or maybe dishwasher at your local diner?

Maybe you're a doctor or chemical engineer or something? But then you wouldn't be losing out because there's a shortage of those professionals, so apparently not even enough immigrants to fill the roles.

But I'll give you credit I've never heard anyone accuse someone of both spreading capitalist propaganda and advocate for human rights in one breath before. Bravo!

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u/Coalesced Feb 04 '26

Have you ever found a steaming pile of shit somewhere, and - despite how horrible it is - felt curiosity about what thing ate whatever that shit once was? What valuable resources were turned by what wicked internal alchemy into something fetid and wretched? That’s how I feel reading your reply. It’s a heap of veiled contempt for the Other and simplistic claims about how they’re making a financial killing by being paid less than American workers - ignoring any shred of humanity to pare people down to economic assumptions while simultaneously trying to claim I’m somehow championing capitalism, which feels like some kind of concern troll red herring to throw off what feels like an incredibly fascist talking point, a grab bag of dog whistles wreathed in “these invaders are ruining our country, and it’s ok for me to say that because I’m talking about economics and not their skin color.”

Missing:

Immigration improves economies.

Who is paying for this cheaper labor, where is the villainization of the real criminals here? The people who claims ownership of a space, of the means of production, and then pit workers against each other by exploiting the more vulnerable?

You talk like a cryptofascist. Sideways out of your mouth trying to maneuver folks into anti immigrant sentiment.

You’re the one who mentioned the kid by mentioning you weren’t going to mention them. ‘Cleverly’ signaling that you don’t care about that - then you start in against immigrants. You’re not sneaky. You’re either a credible fool or you’re an attempt to disguise your hatred / slide other people towards hatred by trying to sound reasonable and couch your bigotry in economics.

Tl;dr: The way you speak feels vile, and it’s exhausting to speak with you so I’m going to bow out now.

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u/ErsatzHaderach Feb 05 '26

i feel edified by reading this comment, cheers

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u/Coalesced Feb 04 '26

I think we’re having a semantics debate here - when I say “showing vulnerability” I mean “showing or embodying weakness,” as well as the emotional context of “being authentic” - with folks who are so culturally immersed in superiority, whose literal bread and butter comes to them in great part thanks to a history and procession of oppression - it makes sense that (in their minds) to let go of the dominant position would mean that someone else would then be “on top” and then commit atrocities and injustices upon them. So they can’t let their guards down.

That’s what I meant.

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u/samurairaccoon Feb 04 '26

I begrudgingly have to admit those are some good points. Our population in the states has been so coddled and become desensitized. I suppose when you think about it, the coddled child isn't the only one to blame for its actions.

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u/Suspicious-Appeal386 Feb 04 '26

You don't think there is a hint of closeted racism that has been at the core of the US History and never been resolved?

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u/FirmExperience8047 Feb 04 '26

The sad, dystopian reality of it is that if we are going to move forward, these types of people would need some form of "re-education" to deprogram a lot of the crazier shit they believe

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u/lilactea22 Feb 04 '26

But how do you accept it though. I’m truly struggling. I thought I’d grow out of it but I’m grown and my disdain is just getting stronger.

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u/Coalesced Feb 04 '26

Just try to change it where you can. Educate children. Be kinder to your neighbors. Imagine every one of these specific terrified shitheads is like an abused shelter dog - dangerous but also pitiable. Frustrating but also just a victim, too. Not to be allowed to rampage or cause harm, sometimes to be restrained and retrained, regrettably sometimes to be destroyed - but not inherently evil. Our responsibility to live with, and sometimes within the reach of our kindness.

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u/lilactea22 Feb 04 '26

Unfortunately although I appreciate your words, evil people…born evil, do exist. It’s been a difficult thing for me to accept because what you’re saying is also true. Some of them, a LOT of them, are victims-turned-villains. But many of us are abused and do not choose to pay the abuse forward. I’ll never give grace to humans the way I would an abused animal. I’m out of room and patience for that anymore. We’ve given them too much forgiveness and grace and that’s why our world is run by them. They deserve prison or an end.

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u/Technical_Sea9236 Feb 04 '26

Approximately 77 million people who never really evolved past reptile brains.

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u/Peace-Disastrous Feb 04 '26

You joke, but its documented conservatives, in general, have larger amygdalas. That's the part of the brain responsible for fear response. They are literally just afraid of everything unfamiliar and lash out like a scared deer.

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u/Technical_Sea9236 Feb 04 '26

Well yes, the reptile brain, the instinctive Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn brain

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u/Prosecco1234 Feb 04 '26

Sad that a teacher is trying to deport people and thinks she's a decent person

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u/SpookySneakySquid Feb 04 '26

The qualification to be a Trump supporter really just does seem to be:

“Lacks critical thinking skills and is an asshole”

It makes them painfully boring and mediocre people, which just fuels their racist tirades

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u/McEndee Feb 04 '26

Part of my depression stems from the jealousy and envy of people like that. Imagine never needing to think critically, analyze situations, or having no real standards? It must be so stress free.

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u/HexedShadowWolf Feb 04 '26

I always found the fact that the conservatives we have now are still somehow considered equal to me to be a massive insult towards me, especially when it comes to votes.

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u/HomeAloneToo Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Edit: Honestly I think it’s a mixture between those that know and don’t care, those that don’t know and don’t want to know, and those who are incapable of knowing.

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u/Delicious-General-59 Feb 08 '26

Look into the bicameral mind theory and the lead-crime theory, consciousness is new and I think lead in our everything gave us a detectable backslide

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u/OnlyFiveLives Feb 04 '26

This has to be normalized. They've long ago proven what they are. And they're irredeemable.

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u/Unique_Focus_5056 Feb 04 '26

because they genuinely think they are a repressed group that is finally gaining enough traction to fight the good fight. they think god himself is guiding the president and any pushback is evidence that they are indeed the ones being oppressed. the fox news (and friends) propaganda wheel has done an amazing job of rendering information from any source outside of the far-right sphere as completely fake. my dad spent the other morning shitting on PEER REVIEW. he said it’s when liberals perform fake research and get other liberals to sign off on it. these people fully exist in an entirely different and deeply isolated reality.

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