"These white supremacists make some good points." -The_Other_Waldo_Pepper

[Atamasama]

@RitterSport

Anyway, this is all pretty off-topic. I think we can agree that TOWP ’s responses in that thread were baffling, in that he never pinged my asshole radar before.

I can’t say that I remember TOWP very well but they weren’t on my radar as one of the “troublesome” posters on this board before that thread.

I have to give @ShadowFacts some credit for pointing this out in the previous thread:

The Biden Administration - the first 1,500 days [NOT an Afghanistan discussion]

Well, you’d originally written “deal with them humanely, or to simply prevent them from crossing by any means, up to and including lethal?” And I figured that framing left more possibilities open than, well, This-Or-Not-This. The 13th Amendment says that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. I propose that we make that a punishment for illegally crossing the border; we…

That is extremely troubling, the idea that we should give people the choice to stay in this country in exchange for literal slavery. That’s fucked up. Even giving someone the “choice” is wrong. If I’m fleeing to the USA from atrocities in my homeland I might accept that offer, but you end up with a new slave class. Combine that with some handwaving of white supremacy and what kind of picture does that paint?