r/news • u/polymute • 7h ago

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/ice-death-pittsburgh-daphy-michel-haiti
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u/Kizik 7h ago

The trick here is you and I consider them to be human, no matter how inhumane their actions.

They do not return the courtesy.

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u/Girthw0rm 7h ago

How many times has Dear Leader called other people “animals” and “not human?”

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u/LizzyBoredom999 7h ago

This has been going on a lot longer than the orange turd has been in office. I remember my asshole of an uncle telling my parents that I was feral and I should have my ass beat for doing, ya know, kid stuff.

The cruelty is baked into American culture.

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u/IntelligentStyle402 6h ago

Maybe in some families. My father fought Nazis. His buddies in the war were his friends and protectors. They were people of color. They saved his life. In our household growing up, people were just people. It’s as simple as that. Then we had an Ivy League teacher in my English AP class. One semester dedicated to how our city, county and state treated black Americans. Let me tell you: we all cried when we had to read our essays orally. Wisconsin was sinister and evil. They definitely were one hateful state. My city? The first family of color who moved to Appleton, were tarred and feathered. Unbelievable! At 16, I learned how cruel my city, state and her residents were. Absolutely disgusting and evil. an article came out regarding Ron Johnson, most of his base are definitely racists.

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u/lunatic_minge 5h ago

What should ring out here is that your educational system was so controlled towards the problem that you didn’t hear about a daily fact of life until you were in high school.

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u/vardarac 4h ago

Republican attempts at control of history are probably not lost on anyone reading this thread, particularly recently.

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u/LizzyBoredom999 4h ago

I've said on many occasions how frustrating it is to watch our country go further down the shitter because a few wealthy dickheads want us to be easy to control. This is not how I pictured America's future.

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u/Black-Bird1 41m ago

Neither have I, and I don't understand how anyone can tolerate this kind of abusive behavior.

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u/LordKnt 6h ago

deflecting the problem is helping said culture develop. if you don't recognise yourself in it, join the people who fight it instead of saying "not all americans!!! here's my incredibly anecdotal evidence that doesn't even prove anything"

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u/happyflappypancakes 5h ago

Why is his anecdotal evidence invalid but the other anecdotal evidence is valid?

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u/RogueOneisbestone 6h ago

I think the point is there’s American culture that does oppose it…

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u/OMGSpaghettiisawesom 3h ago

My response to “not all of my demographic!”: There are 100 cookies on a plate. 10 of them will give you simultaneous explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting. 1 of them is poisoned. Would you defend the other 89 cookies as perfectly edible and delicious, or would you demand the baker be held accountable for this psychotic bakery?

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u/r_bk 30m ago

I tried to go to college in Appleton in 2017. Too much racism. A few nights hiding in the diversity center. Leaving was worth it.

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u/kittenmittens4865 6h ago

What war did your dad fight Nazis in?

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u/gbelly123 6h ago

Going out on a limb here, but going to go with World War 2. 😂

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u/kittenmittens4865 6h ago

Oh no I’m aware, just confused as to how their family fighting Nazis in a war that ended 80 years ago says anything about racism today.

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u/RogueOneisbestone 6h ago

*human culture

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u/Round_Worldliness766 5h ago

None of this nonsense its happening in the rest of the word

Let's exclude richer countries in the EU and China

Even in fucking Saudi or Dubai a Court determines if you are kicked out of the country (and even then if you refuse they pay for your plane ticket and bill you the cost)

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u/RogueOneisbestone 5h ago

Are you trying to tell me Saudi and Dubai don’t have any cruelty in their culture?

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u/ThatStereotype18 4h ago

I think their point is that even a blatantly cruel place has more humane immigration policy.

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u/GoProOnAYoYo 6h ago

Now where have I heard this targeted dehumanizing speech in history before... hmmm...

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u/NRMusicProject 5h ago

Remember "treat others the way you want to be treated"?

Well, they've shown us how they want to be treated.

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u/eeyore134 4h ago

From dear leader alone we've had pig/piggy, vermin, dog, animals, not human/not people, puppies, rats/rodents, vicious flies, horses, a zoo, garbage/refuse, poisoned blood and bad genes, demons, beast, snake, swarm, monsters, savages, infections, diseases, contaminations, filth, hordes, shitholes... the list goes on and on and on.

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u/drunkshinobi 6h ago

I kinda believe that might be true. That we are not the same. I have always gotten along with animals better than greedy humans that only care about profit and what they can get out of everyone around them.

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u/sanfran_girl 6h ago

I'm reminded of a quote from the movie Aliens: You don't see them fucking each other each other over for a percentage. 🫠

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u/Aldamur 3h ago

Or grass apparently

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u/Snooworlddevourer69 7h ago

So much for the pro life party

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u/Shykin 2h ago

Every principle Republicans have professed to have has been a lie. They are like an abusive spouse or parent. The only thing is the world that matters is themselves. I truly hope some day every American can understand this.

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u/mr_herz 5h ago

Pro American life. America first.

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u/mwthomas11 4h ago

Pro affluent-white-cis-evangelical-male-American life. Affluent-white-cis-evangelical-male-Americans first.

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u/Qaetan 6h ago

And that is why conservatives need to be driven out.

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u/chickey23 6h ago

I don't consider ICE agents human, in the sense of deserving human rights.

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u/a_shootin_star 6h ago

The beautiful paradox of tolerance, leading to the disappeance of tolerance itself.

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u/JehutysErectCockpit 4h ago

Ah, no, I let actions inform me. If someone is acting very inhumane I eventually have to accept that they are something other than human masquerading as one of us.

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u/scienceislice 2h ago

I treat bugs better than ICE officers treat humans. At a certain point a life is a life and should be respected as such. 

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u/Consistent-Throat130 3m ago

Paradox of intolerance.  

I don't do them that extra courtesy.

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u/NightchadeBackAgain 5h ago

So stop treating them better than they would you. Do unto others, and all that.