fossilesque@mander.xyz to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoWhite House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizenswww.huffpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down10
arrow-up188arrow-down1external-linkWhite House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizenswww.huffpost.comfossilesque@mander.xyz to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareClassIsOver [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoI worry that “deportation” is more solidly within the Overton window than “indefinitely detained”. “Deportation” implies that someone is free to live anywhere else. “Indefinitely detained” implies that that person is sitting in a cell somewhere.
minus-squareOgdenTO [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoNew El Salvadoran Guantanamo
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoPeople are free to live in an area that was completely coincidentally enclosed (and surrounded with private property, where they are not allowed to trespass).
I worry that “deportation” is more solidly within the Overton window than “indefinitely detained”.
“Deportation” implies that someone is free to live anywhere else. “Indefinitely detained” implies that that person is sitting in a cell somewhere.
New El Salvadoran Guantanamo
People are free to live in an area that was completely coincidentally enclosed (and surrounded with private property, where they are not allowed to trespass).