It feels like the point is simply to make “good citizens” scared because they didn’t find it a problem as long as the ones being horribly treated were filthy immigrants.
But it confirms the idea that whether the victim is a “citizen” or not is an important point, implying that torturing people is fine as long as they don’t have the right papers. I cannot really accept something like that.
If you replace “deports” by “shoots in the face”, suddenly most people would think that being a citizen is irrelevant, but because this torture/deportation thing is less " obvious" people delude themselves into tolerating it, as long as they don’t personally feel threatened.
But this was long established.
It feels like the point is simply to make “good citizens” scared because they didn’t find it a problem as long as the ones being horribly treated were filthy immigrants.
But it confirms the idea that whether the victim is a “citizen” or not is an important point, implying that torturing people is fine as long as they don’t have the right papers. I cannot really accept something like that.
If you replace “deports” by “shoots in the face”, suddenly most people would think that being a citizen is irrelevant, but because this torture/deportation thing is less " obvious" people delude themselves into tolerating it, as long as they don’t personally feel threatened.