Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents' masks to masks worn by members of Nationalist Social Club-131, or NSC 131, a neo-Nazi organization.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30975117

Where are you going to get people willing to violate the rights of others?

Proud Boys now being monetize as ICE.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    49·
    14 hours ago

    Police shouldn’t be allowed to hide their identities. They are supposed to be accountable to the public.

    Otherwise I’m pretty meh on masks. Neo-nazis might wear them, but then so do Antifa. It’s for the same reason, so I’m hesitant to condemn one group for doing it and praising the other. (Neo-nazis should be condemned just for being Nazis anyway.)

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah, there’s a critical difference with law enforcement wearing masks. Antifa, and I guess very theoretically the Nazis, wear masks because they are private citizens opposing structures of power. Police aren’t. The only people they have to fear is the public, which is who they’re supposed to be working for.

      Plus, it’s not just their faces they’re hiding. They also aren’t giving badge numbers or any other way for the public to lodge a complaint against a bad agent. That’s not a system of justice, it’s a political gang.

    • huppakee@lemm.ee
      6·
      7 hours ago

      I think it also shows they themselves know what they’re doing is wrong. They know their current bosses and political leaders agree, they don’t have to fear them in any way. They do it because it protects them from hysteric parents or angry mobs, but I think they most of all do it because theyvdont want there to be any evidence (= footage showing them doing this). This is not like people hiding their identity during a protest, this is like people hiding their identity when robbing a bank.

  • ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    15 hours ago

    “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against The Machine is unfortunately as relevant today as when it was written if not more so.

    Edit: updated to have the actual name of the song