A Democratic senator has asked newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to explain the department’s racist social media presence and assure the agency has not been “infiltrated by violent extremists.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., pointed to a March bulletin from Colorado law enforcement analysts that was unearthed by The Intercept last month. It warned that DHS posts using language popular with neo-Nazis could inspire acts of far-right violence within the U.S. as well as prompt white supremacists to join the agency.
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arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 108 pts · 76d
ice was "infiltrated" by violent extremists in the same way that auto repair shops are "infiltrated" by mechanics
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 76d
Came here to say something similar. Aren't they being selected for this kind of work by people interested in them being like that?
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 76d
infiltrated implys they snuck in, they deff didnt need to sneak in anywhere.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 75d
They are the foundation
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 76d
Narrator: They won't.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 76d
Other Narrator: Because they are.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 76d
That was implied.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 76d
we can no longer rely on implication and insinuation. The hesitancy to call a spade a spade is a large part of how we got here. People saying we can't call trump a Nazis in 2016 dispute literally recycling Hitler's own rhetoric is part of how we got here.
foggy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
I blame the legacy media outlets. The very same that expressed grave concern for the violent tensions in Palestine but didn't call it a genocide until like this past winter.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d
yup. the news media in particular refused to call anything like that what it was. Israeli attacks in gaza isn't genocide. the invasion into Lebanon isn't an invasion. Assassinations aren't assassinations.
Same goes for trump. they sanewash literally everything he says to make him not seem like a racist, fuck-faced nazis getting cucked by Netanyahu and Puttin- at the same time.
It's not just the news media, either. Democrats- particularly centrist dems- refuse to call genocide genocide, or even to simply recognize Palestinian-American's right to protest (and equal protection from counter protesters. ACAB in full force there.)
jtrek@startrek.website · 1 pts · 76d
I think that part of our problems come from people being too polite. Someone will say something completely stupid, and people don't want to make a fuss so they let it slide. Peer pressure is like the only thing that changes minds.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
For anyone that's ever seen Speak No Evil, an awful lot of the Tone Police running the media behave almost exactly the same way...gawd forbid we should ever make a Republican or a conservative feel uncomfortable for what they say and do and what their intentions are...
I'm trying to remember who it was, but I remember seeing some butthurt Republican just recently squawking over someone calling them a racist. They want to be free to be racist AF, but don't you dare call them one! That's like the worst thing someone can do!
shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 76d
Bigly
NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 76d
That's the best moral outrage the Democrats can come up with? Seriously? No wonder we get our ass kicked all the time.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 76d
No. They can be even more morally outraged by the actual left wing of their own damned party.
justaman123@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
This is like pushing back against the racist fascist policy in a way that gives the racist fascist policy an air of legitimacy. Like honestly its exactly the right move as planned opposition. Like did a think tank come up with this?
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 75d
There are no unemployed violent extremists in America now. Thanks ICE!
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 76d
Washington AG urges ICE to restore death reporting, citing Tacoma facility complaints
ICE can't remember shit
BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 76d
Ain't gonna be no ICE after this shakes out so
raman_klogius@ani.social · 3 pts · 76d
The canary, if there's one, is already a pile of bones and feather at this stage.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 75d
Seems he's one of the handful of sane US Senators, on this and Climate Change etc
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 76d
Some people have internalized the slaver -nazi-genocidal message so deeply, they consider themselves the good guys. Like zionazis.
Steve@startrek.website · 2 pts · 76d
Founded by?
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 5 pts · 76d
The HSA was cosponsored by 118 members of Congress. Passed the House 295—132 with 6 not voting. It passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 90—9, with one senator not voting. It was signed by George W. Bush in November 2002.
https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll367.xml
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1072/vote_107_2_00249.htm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00249
So.. ultimately Osama Bin Laden is responsible for ICE, along with many of the other pro-fascism shifts the US has made in the last 25 years in response to those attacks.
He was extremely successful with his entire plan to destabilize and hurt America in response to the US fucking around in the middle east for decades prior.