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Say It with Me: This is Ethnic Cleansing [1]
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Date: 2025-06-28
I live in Los Angeles County and have been watching armed and masked soldiers running wild through the streets, setting up blockades and checkpoints and invading and terrorizing people in my hometown of Pasadena for the last week. It is time to call this what it is. Everyone seems so timid about using the term, but we are now witnessing ethnic cleansing in this country. I think there is a cognitive dissonance associated with accepting this as fact, and it seems like everyone in the US, even here on Daily Kos, either hasn’t quite processed that we are here, or is feeling timid about using such a heavy word.
However, there is now a coordinated campaign of ethnic cleansing in this country and we need to start calling it what it is. We need to unmask the evil and reveal it to the world. Here are some points:
The president of this country, who is spearheading this campaign, has called for “re-migration,” which is a white supremacist term synonymous with ethnic cleansing. Let me rephrase and repeat that: The president of the United States has *explicitly* called for ethnic cleansing. Ice agents have been infiltrated by white supremacist groups that have stated goals of ethnic cleansing. We have seen photographs of the tattoos on their arms signifying their affiliation with these groups. People (presumably ICE agents) are hiding their identity with masks and going through neighborhoods targeting non-white people, abducting them often extra-legally, throwing them into unmarked vans and sending them to prison camps in foreign countries that are infamous worldwide for human rights violations. The government is brazenly and consistently ignoring court orders in pursuing and maintaining these abductions. People in these camps are not receiving medical care and deaths and other tragedies are already starting to occur. Legal, documented immigrants are being rounded up routinely. These are people who immigrated legally, have documentation, and are attending their immigration hearings when they get abducted. A number of children have also been deported despite being full citizens of the US, presumably with all of the rights that entails. White undocumented immigrants who are actually here illegally are not being rounded up and deported. Only brown people are being targeted and abducted. One of the two major political parties in this country has taken to court a case attempting to revoke constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship and a radical Supreme Court is refusing to stop them, even tacitly encouraging them. They are already building at least one concentration camp in the swamps of Florida.
Things are happening so fast here that we are unable to keep up. In fact, it is so fast that we are not even calling it what it is. When we do not call horrifying behavior what it actually is, we enable and empower the perpetrators to gaslight us and continue engaging in the horrifying behavior. We cannot continue to do this any longer. By definition this is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.
I invite you to say it with me in the comments below:
This is ethnic cleansing.
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