This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.

He records them and shares it with the world.

What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?

Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA0

[dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@futurebird Goddam this is chilling stuff. Damn.

[misusecase@twit.social]

@futurebird “Kindergarten teacher wants to deport their students” sounds monstrously unbelievable but I knew someone whose wife was a teacher and apparently complained about all the ESL students in her school. I don’t know what those students’ immigration status was but she and her husband definitely *thought* they were undocumented.

[ersatzmaus@mastodon.social]

@FediThing @futurebird Failed at life? Feeling unsuccessful or unappreciated? Try racism!

[master_squinter@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird
This is horrific. Genuinely distressing that a teacher of children would choose to do something so intentionally destructive to a child.

[mimesatwork@wandering.shop]

@FediThing @futurebird It's pettiness. The teach is feeling uncomfortable feelings and they know for a fact that exerting petty power over someone else will make them briefly feel like they're in control and their life has value.

[ersatzmaus@mastodon.social]

@FediThing @futurebird It is precisely about _not_ thinking.

If you dump all inarticulate, inchoate blame for the "big fuzzy cloud of badness" in your life on someone you can other(v, t)… then you _don't_ have to think about the actual causes or the fact that the solutions to those problems might be hard and involve complex socio-economic changes.

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@futurebird This is so important. We know who the people who ran the Nazi camps were: school masters, shop assistants, public servants. People like you and me.
But we call them monsters to avoid having to face the fact that we could have been them.

[spreadthetruth@mastodon.social]

@MisuseCase @futurebird my daughter a grade school teacher has heard teachers talk this way as well

[lavenderjamie@fedi.hug.institute]

@futurebird I'm literally watching his videos right now.

It's crazy how much hate there are in America. The rhetoric being passed around in the United States is unreasonably close to 1939. (maybe switch Hitler out for Trump, and pick different groups to target)

[funnymonkey@freeradical.zone]

@futurebird

Whenever I hear people talk about "falling test scores" and how schools are failing, I think about the number of teachers like this.

[samiamsam@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

brilliant

[richard_merren@mastodon.social]

@futurebird This woman desperately wants to believe she is the victim of something--being taken advantage of by foreigners or being mistreated by a hotline employee. She is sadistically aching for somebody, somewhere to be punished for something no matter whether her life is materially affected in any way or not. She's like a frustrated toddler lashing out at anything within reach. A raging racist toddler with a cell phone, a job overseeing children, and voting rights.

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@futurebird shit at first glance I thought this was an Onion article

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

What disturbs me is the total lack of urgency and confidence in these “reporters” as soon as Ben simply describes what they are doing “so you are reporting this person so they will be removed from the country” they put all of the responsibility on him (one caller says “isn’t that what we are doing?)

People scoff at insects following pheromone trails but the average ant puts more thought into her next action than some of these people. “The government says report these people better do it”

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

Is not like they call in, crying and in distress having been menaced by some horrible gang— no it’s a literal child trying their best to learn the damn alphabet— and this lady is like “oh he’s kinda different better call the government”

[fraggle@social.coop]

@FediThing @futurebird @ersatzmaus prejudice burns brighter when there's nothing else to burn

[arisummerland@beige.party]

@futurebird

Chilling, yet brilliant on his part. I'm not surprised at all that people are like this. More of them need to be exposed.

[iwillyeah@mastodon.ie]

@futurebird you're like, making out that I'm, this, like, horrible person.

*fucking crickets*

[lor@goingdark.social]

@futurebird

What a bitch. Know your enemy and it is people that sound like her.