Alex Piccolo @PiccoloSunday - Twitter Profile

about 1 year ago

What's disgusting is this textbook right-wing media bait, two completely unrelated stories thrown side by side like they’re flip sides of the same coin, when in reality, they’re not even related. Let’s break it down. On one side, you’ve got the horrific murder of Rachel Morin, an absolutely tragic crime. Her killer, an undocumented immigrant, was convicted, and justice is being served. It was covered in the press, especially locally and through conservative outlets, and politicians like Trump made sure to amplify it at every chance as political prop. That's disgusting. The implication that no one talked about it is flat-out false. Now, on the other side, you’ve got a guy who was wrongfully deported, a story about the government screwing up and sending a legal resident to a country he hadn’t lived in since he was a minor. That’s a due process issue, a civil liberties story, exactly the kind of government overreach conservatives used to care about. So what does the right-wing media do? Mash the two together like they’re somehow morally or logically equivalent. But one is about an act of violence by an individual. The other is about the system failing and trampling over the rights of an American resident. You don’t have to choose between caring about one or the other. In fact, if you actually care about safety and law and order, both should bother you. But instead, this graphic says: “Hey, the press likes immigrants more than murder victims.” That’s not reality, that’s manipulation. It’s designed to fuel outrage and division, not inform. It’s not about the truth, it’s about the clicks, the fear, and keeping people angry and confused. This isn’t a tale of two cases, it’s dishonest as they make you pick a side you were never supposed to choose between.

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