I have never been able to understand people who could see and hear a child who

[Atticus]

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was in pain or hungry or scared and not be moved to do all they could to comfort them. I thought the natural impulse was to hug, to hold and to assure the child that "its gonna be ok". I thought our common humanity required us to feed, clothe, shelter and comfort---OUR KIDS!

[no_hypocrisy]

1. You never met my father . . . . . . .

[Haggis for Breakfast]

2. . . . or my mother.

[ChubbyStar]

7. We must be related

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. Oh, I hope not.

I wouldn't want my worst enemy to have endured her. She's an arrogant passive-aggressive, AND a compulsive, pathological liar.

[mshasta]

3. shit!

[hlthe2b]

4. Even worse, if there are any staff dealing with these kids who actually do give a damn, they are

PROHIBITED from touch of any kind. Imagine the long term effects on infants and toddlers. Good gawd.

[sop]

5. You need to qualify your statement. "Normal" or "caring" people would be moved to act

Those qualities seem to be in short supply in some circles.

[kacekwl]

6. That's because they don't SEE them.

They hear a blurb on the news but never see them. We have to make them seen. Like the rebob trump camp video. Play that every 1/2 hour on Dancing with the Stars or some such show.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. I would get fired 40 times every shift.

I can’t ignore children.

Crying, sad, happy, sick, healthy...matters not.

[guillaumeb]

10. But if that child can be painted as a dangerous "other",

and less than fully human, many people will accept that framing.

That enables wars, and concentration camps, and other inhumane actions.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Trump and his supporters consider them 'animals'.

[guillaumeb]

20. Agreed.

And in this, they are no better than any other supporters of genocide and concentration camps.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Humans are actually really good at dehumanizing others.

[alwaysinasnit]

14. Absolutely. History is replete with such proof.

[lunatica]

15. I'm with you

You’d think it was in human DNA. Instinctual.

If nothing else we’re learning that not all humans are the same when it comes to caring. There is a subset who are depraved, and it only shows up during times like this, or like Hitler’s Germany when things get so horrible for groups of human beings. It’s heartbreaking to see the haters get their way.

[patphil]

16. You have to be human to have a sense of humanity.

The people running these facilities, and the ones in government who are directing this horrible policy of torture don't seem to qualify as human.
I am sure the Nazi's felt the same way they do about the people they held in their concentration camps.

[freindship 7]

17. why pretend

Lets cut the shit and call Trump and his followers what they are Nazi's and I ought to know I have personally had three former Hitler youths and a Krieg marine officer as friends and they have passed on but they had realized their Fuhrer was full of shit.
they were not involved with crimes against the Jewish people and they absolutely loved America.
Anyway the workers could just quit but they will not and God will not let them slide they will pay for their crimes.
Trumps followers are worse than my friends ever where these men were compelled to participate three of them were taken as children and sent to the Hitler school and the other was a naval officer who a year before the end was captured and spent a year as a prisoner of war.
His followers are driven by prejudice and a desire to sustain white supremacy so lets not pretend and give them a pass my friends were decent people who after the war went out of their way to be decent and caring human beings and participated in every act of charity that came their way and they knew and loved God.
The whole premise of conservatism is self above everything and everyone it has no virtue
The true measure of a human being is how we care for the poor and the sick and our kids and every child related or not.
Animals too they should be cared for as well in short care for every living thing without regard for self or reward this is the way to eternal life

[backtoblue]

18. .

[Harker]

19. You're an immensely valuable DUer, Atticus.

Thank you.

[elias7]

21. They rationalize it

They say that their parents broke the law and there sorry it has to be this way but that’s the law of the land.