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Now imagine if Canadian border patrol captured these people, shoved them by the 100s into rooms meant to hold dozens. If they separated families and left babies and toddlers untended and uncared for on concrete floors. Imagine if they argued in court to prevent giving them soap.
Imagine if Justin Trudeau went around Canada calling these desperate people “an invasion” and “animals.” Imagine crowds coming to cheer this.
Imagine them infuriated by criticism of their camps, pretending outrage on behalf of those who had suffered even more, decades ago.
Imagine them infuriated by criticism of their camps, pretending outrage on behalf of those who had suffered even more, decades ago.
What an evil selfish anti-human people they’d be.
What a horrible country.
What a terrible reckoning they would’ve earned.
Never again is right now.
What a horrible country.
What a terrible reckoning they would’ve earned.
Never again is right now.
It requires no imagination to see the parallels between today and the atrocities of the past; observation is all that is required for that.
What requires imagination are the contortions and acrobatics to allow yourself enough ignorance to fail to see it.
What requires imagination are the contortions and acrobatics to allow yourself enough ignorance to fail to see it.
It’s people made desperate by a very real danger to their lives, crossing borders to avail themselves of opportunity in another country, but if your mission is to find a reason not to care about injustice, you’ll always find one, and any reason will do.
Do you though?
Even if they were doing so, would they have earned such inhuman treatment?
And if not, what makes this a relevant point?
Even if they were doing so, would they have earned such inhuman treatment?
And if not, what makes this a relevant point?
