Ben Palmer exposes through his fake ICE reporting website how deeply rooted fascism already is in American culture.
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Ben Palmer exposes through his fake ICE reporting website how deeply rooted fascism already is in American culture. It's not just the thugs in masks throwing people in unmarked vans, or presidents speaking of the “enemy within” or foreigners having “crime in their genes”, it's us. It's us not just electing, but wanting that. Wanting our neighbors gone, wanting a seat at the table, even if it means killing half the country to rule over the other half.
Nice people didn't just make the best Nazis because they didn't make any waves, they also fit perfectly into the regime. They could use their privilege any time to profit off the system, claiming their neighbor's property or belongings after reporting them to the Gestapo. Any white American today can report an immigrant wishing their deportation, and in the recorded calls they often do so for wanting there to be an empty seat in a daycare, or seeing them do something they believe they have a right to.
When confronted during these fake ICE calls, the people reporting their neighbors wanting them deported for believing they are illegals (often just based off skin color) get mad being confronted with the reality of what they did. When Palmer asks them “so you want your neighbors deported?”, despite that being the point of the conversation, the callers get infuriated, as if their simple reporting was completely disconnected from what happened afterwards.
They sometimes even respond that they didn't know what this meant, which in the face of reality today can just be called what it is: a bold faced lie. When reporting immigrants to ICE you know exactly what you're doing, when someone tells it back to you without your sweet story for why you think you were justified in doing that, it somehow loses the heroic optics you gave yourself. It really makes you seem like you're the villain, which is the objective perspective on such an act.
There's people on these fake ICE calls demanding to speak with Palmer's manager, being enraged, simply because he reminded them that ICE deports people.
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Ben Palmer exposes through his fake ICE reporting website how deeply rooted fascism already is in American culture. It's not just the thugs in masks throwing people in unmarked vans, or presidents speaking of the “enemy within” or foreigners having “crime in their genes”, it's us. It's us not just electing, but wanting that. Wanting our neighbors gone, wanting a seat at the table, even if it means killing half the country to rule over the other half.
Nice people didn't just make the best Nazis because they didn't make any waves, they also fit perfectly into the regime. They could use their privilege any time to profit off the system, claiming their neighbor's property or belongings after reporting them to the Gestapo. Any white American today can report an immigrant wishing their deportation, and in the recorded calls they often do so for wanting there to be an empty seat in a daycare, or seeing them do something they believe they have a right to.
When confronted during these fake ICE calls, the people reporting their neighbors wanting them deported for believing they are illegals (often just based off skin color) get mad being confronted with the reality of what they did. When Palmer asks them “so you want your neighbors deported?”, despite that being the point of the conversation, the callers get infuriated, as if their simple reporting was completely disconnected from what happened afterwards.
They sometimes even respond that they didn't know what this meant, which in the face of reality today can just be called what it is: a bold faced lie. When reporting immigrants to ICE you know exactly what you're doing, when someone tells it back to you without your sweet story for why you think you were justified in doing that, it somehow loses the heroic optics you gave yourself. It really makes you seem like you're the villain, which is the objective perspective on such an act.
There's people on these fake ICE calls demanding to speak with Palmer's manager, being enraged, simply because he reminded them that ICE deports people.
When someone reports their neighbors to ICE, they know what they are doing, and anyone claiming afterwards they had no idea is lying. They just don't like the optics of it all. That's it.
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When someone reports their neighbors to ICE, they know what they are doing, and anyone claiming afterwards they had no idea is lying. They just don't like the optics of it all. That's it.
Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.
— Naomi Shulman, 17th of November 2016, paraphrased from her essay No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not The Moment To Remain Silent
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