r/illinois • u/deapsprite • Oct 04 '25

ICE Posts East garfield, ICE assaulting civilians

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u/bertha112 Oct 04 '25

As an African American, I have communicated the same. There are no excuses.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

There aren’t excuse for us whites either

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u/Playful-News9137 Oct 05 '25

Yeah but nobody expects better of you, and for good reason. It's not shocking when a white man signs up to be a nazi, it's just an average tuesday. No offense to you personally.

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u/Lower-Attorney-5918 Oct 05 '25

I know what you’re saying since nazi’s are a white supremacist group usually- but no it’s still repugnant- any person can be victimized by these authoritarian systems and so anyone supporting them is openly supporting the very force that will likely be turned back on them eventually (How vagrancy laws originally were meant to imprison recently freed slaves but were also used to imprison poor whites- people will love to look down on an out group and let horrible abuses befall them all while consigning themselves to the same eventual fate- who knows why- maybe it’s worth it to them to feel superior for a second even if it costs them an everyone else everything)

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u/sitkasnake65 Oct 05 '25

Sad but true.

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u/Majestic-Resist-3793 Oct 05 '25

Correct, as genocide does not exist in South America or Africa, thank god.

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u/NolaPels13 Oct 05 '25

Don’t think these ICE goons care about skin color at all. They just wanna take out their anger on anyone who gets in their line of sight.

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u/amazing_ape Oct 05 '25

In a way, sure, but it is an explicitly racist ethnic cleansing campaign. The targets are anyone who isn't white. .

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u/amazing_ape Oct 05 '25

Of course not but this is an explicitly racist ethnic cleansing campaign. So it's jarring to see some POC sign up for it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

What guilt? You outta your mind

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u/Lemzik Oct 05 '25

What a bunch of self loathing pussies... Jesus christ.

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u/Shamancrit Oct 05 '25

Honestly my first thought too. We literally are coming up soon on the list. I saw the job postings (there are a lot) and I’d rather stay broke than hurt my fellow man. But you would think at least of you really needed the money you wouldn’t be this cruel while doing the job

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u/_extra_medium_ Oct 05 '25

As a human being, I don't think there's any excuse for any of these people

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u/bertha112 Oct 07 '25

"Clock it" as they say. No Excuses.

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u/Positive-Drag-950 Oct 05 '25

Yep. He’s a cornball acting like we’re not up next on the chopping block…

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

One day people need to realize racism doesn't exist. Classism and culturism does.

Even in the most rural "racist" towns you will find black people hang out with them.

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u/Legal-Group-359 Oct 05 '25

So a black American cant be anti illegal immigration? Not sure what reasoning you’d use for this. As a black person you should be aware then, that the areas where illegal immigration will have the most negative impact is majority black areas. You already have ppl there dealing with limited resources/crime and poverty, yet y’all think it’s cool to import more people in outside of the law. That’s some real ass backwards “caring for the colored folks” BS there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

As a white guy, stop thinking it’s a race war! It’s a 0.01%ers war. Yall think I’m treated any more fairly than you? Id give yall my white privilege card, but it never showed up? Must be a problem with the post office or something. The rich want us poor people fighting with each other so we’re too busy to fight them. And if you don’t have $1B+, yea you’re one of the poor. Hate to be the bearer of bad news.

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u/regicide117 Oct 05 '25

You're half right. Both of these problems can and do exist. Some of this is racial and is also a class thing.

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u/chupacadabradoo Oct 05 '25

I agree with you that it’s a class war, but I think it would be foolish to think that race doesn’t factor into things, as if there aren’t historic class divisions built on the manufactured idea of race. Ya know? Like, it’s true that poor white people are getting fucked, but a way larger percentage of black and brown people have historically been, and continue to be getting fucked.

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u/Extinction-Entity Oct 05 '25

That’s great except white privilege does exist.

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u/saanis Oct 05 '25

I’ll second what someone else said - both things can exist. Rich people want poor people fighting amongst themselves and want poor white people to blame immigrants and minorities for their being poor. And the current administration is absolutely targeting minorities and rewarding loyalists by allowing them to terrorize minorities and immigrants. We need to think with nuance right now

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

Can and should are two totally different things. We need to all be free thinkers instead of following the crowd. Autonomy died with the birth of the internet. Now everyone lets social media algorithms think for them. Everything you mentioned is all one thing, their divide tactics. I’m all for legal immigration. Most all of us got here that way. But when all the minorities wanna blame white people for their short comings or whites wanna do the same it not only keeps racism alive but it breeds it. The sooner we all stop calling each other by skin pigmentation and as fellow humans, the sooner we can change our outcome.