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A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained. (www.nytimes.com)

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By Jack Healy
Photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis
May 28, 2025

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” said Vanessa Cowart, a friend of Ms. Hui from church. “But no one voted to deport moms. "

Eh.... Yes you did. And you heard about the deportation of sick kids. Now you're up in arms because it directly affects you.

100% classic lack of empathy. Oh, now that is happened to me I can see the problem. Jesus fucking Christ.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that you're missing the point here. People who had some vision of ICE taking out violent criminals now see something different and they they are taking a stand against it. And it's not happening to them, but to a single Chinese worker who they all love. That's solidarity, even if they may not call it such. Something similar happened in NY state in the town of the border czar.

These events give me hope for the future. There is no point at all in finger-wagging at Trump voters. When the tariffs and Medicaid cuts come down, we will see many more people's consciousness change.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

People who had some vision of ICE taking out violent criminals now see something different and they they are taking a stand against it.

Yeah, I guess my issue with this is twofold:

I think we could all see that it wasn't just going to be violent criminals. The deportations of non-gang members, including sick children, have been (violently) going on for some time lest it all came as a bit of a surprise to them.
It took it happening to them for it to actually land.

Number 2 is the big issue for me; It reminds me of the republican governor somewhere who got diabetes then went about putting in place a cap on the price of insulin. It's obviously fantastic that the insulin price cap got put on, but it's downright awful that it had to directly impact him before that happened. I mean I don't even live over there and I am acutely aware of how unchecked insulin prices are killing people.

These events give me hope for the future. There is no point at all in finger-wagging at Trump voters. When the tariffs and Medicaid cuts come down, we will see many more people’s consciousness change.

Yeah, I guess I see some hope for the future too, but I'd rather far fewer people experience the leopards before their mind gets changed. It takes just a smidge of trying to put yourself in the other person's shoes and I'm not sure this experience will make these people any more empathetic overall.