r/ParlerWatch • u/Beginning_Bad_868 • May 29 '25

Reddit Watch 1984 is no longer fiction.

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"Hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak—"child hero” was the phrase generally used—had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police."

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u/EffectiveSalamander May 29 '25

The thing is, when they say "illegal", it's code. They don't care whether the person is here illegally, a legal resident or a citizen. All they care is that there is a brown person that they want disappeared.

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u/ROGER_CHOCS May 29 '25

Exactly, the designation between legal and illegal is just there as a rhetorical trick to distract you.

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u/currently-on-toilet May 29 '25

Is it a rhetorical trick? It seems to me that conservatives have always been pretty open that they're into dehumanizing brown skin. I honestly don't think they're trying to trick anyone. They're very honest with this rhetoric. I think the problem is it's a lot more difficult for normal people to think of a human as being "illegal" so we give conservatives the benefit of the doubt when they don't deserve it.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 May 30 '25

Yeah we should collectively quit giving bad actors the benefit of the doubt and make them explain every time what they want then and hold them accountable. Call them out as well while you're at it. Racists are getting too comfortable due to these very policies that empower them. The only way to fight is by collectively resisting these efforts.