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Re:GitHub is facing employee backlash by rbanffy on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:01PM (#25752626)
If you march alongside a nazi, you are one. If you support a nazi, you are one. If you support a president who separates children from their parents and puts them in prison camps you are one. If, for all that, you are willing to steal an election and terrorize your elected officials, build gallows outside the building and enter if with plastic handcuffs, you most definitely are one.
Re:GitHub is facing employee backlash by akarma on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:26PM (#25753034)
I won't go through all the effort of sourcing as this is easily searchable, but:

> If you support a president who separates children from their parents

Obama's Homeland Security secretary, Johnson, confirmed with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that this predates the Trump administration.

> terrorize your elected officials

AOC has said that the whole point of protesting is to "make people uncomfortable." A professor at Wellesley wrote an article in Slate that "Violence can be an important tool in protests." The destruction of government buildings has certainly occurred in recent protests, there are dozens of instances of this.

> build gallows outside the building

Even the irony in this! Black Lives Matter protestors built a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos' DC home.

I support Black Lives Matter to be clear, but obviously this whole "Nazi by association" schtick leads to the conclusion that we would all, in fact, be Nazis.

Re:GitHub is facing employee backlash by rbanffy on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:12PM (#25754661)
> Obama's Homeland Security secretary, Johnson, confirmed with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that this predates the Trump administration.

Do you have numbers on how many children were separated from their parents? How many parents were repatriated without their children? How many kids died in custody and of how many they lost track of?

> Black Lives Matter protestors built a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos' DC home.

Did they also invade Bezos' home with the intention to drag him out?

> obviously this whole "Nazi by association" schtick leads to the conclusion that we would all, in fact, be Nazis.

When you think about that, do you feel comfortable at endorsing the policies that caused kids to be permanently separated from their parents? Kids that died without the comfort of being with their families?

HRW did a report on that https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/28/freezer/abusive-condit...

Re:GitHub is facing employee backlash by chrismcb on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:36PM (#25754131)
You seem to be implying almost all Americans are Nazis. Most Americans supported Obama or Trump. Both separated children from their parents and out then in prison camps.
Re:GitHub is facing employee backlash by rbanffy on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:55PM (#25754421)
It's troubling, but if someone supports a person like him, with all we know now, with parents that were deported without their kids (after doing everything according to international treaties and norms - first enter, then ask for asylum), kids they lost track of and can no longer reconnect with parents, people who died in their custody, the callous inaction in front of a pandemic... With all that, if someone still supports the president, I'll question their character, fiscal policies and tax breaks be damned.

I face a similar issue in my own home country of origin: 58 million people voted for a corrupt ex-military drop out, racist, homophobic, and incompetent beyond belief who's trying to bypass all democratic processes and take over local police forces which overwhelmingly support him. I can't have those 58 million fellow Brazilians in high regard. Even if you say the previous government was corrupt, corruption is much less serious than letting 200 thousand people die while sabotaging emergency healthcare measures so that your possible political opponents in the next presidential election don't get credit.