Reminder, we no longer call them “children in cages” now that bad orange man is gone.
If you support putting children in cages and think its GOOD: You're a horrible person! Fascist!
If you support putting children in cages but HATE that we have to do it (for their own good! We have no better options!): A rational, sensible liberal way to see things!
If you think the migrant crisis requires a more humanitarian approach, and that they should be given better accommodations and we should reevaluate our Latin American policy to prevent such things: Tankie! You're being unrealistic! You support open bordered!
Really drives home how so much of American politics is just aesthetics. You can do bad things you just have to acknowledge their bad and feel bad about them. But not dwell on it too much because that helps the opposition.
Whether the neoliberal politicians flip flop is not the point, the goal is to move the Overton Window of the conversation.
Funny I don't remember them being so careful to provide all that "context" for what Trump said or did.
Back in the 80s/90s, although it had inaccuracies, the US media wasn't part of the Red Terror.
Glenn Greenwald, who's based in Brazil now, has explained that his US journalist friends must toe the cultural Marxist line or they're cancelled (fired and disowned by all journo friends.)
Also, using the phrase "cultural Marxism" is a pretty strong red flag that you have your own ideological biases yourself.
The problem is when the context is that the Trump administration was cruel on purpose as part of their war on immigration it makes them look worse not better
It's a popular "dunk" on Democrats and "resistance" types, but I'm sure you can see that what it also does is normalize deterrent family separation, as if it was something we have routinely done historically (it was not).
The AP isn't always right (how weird would it be if they were?) but they are in this case.
Your characterization of Trump vs Biden/Obama is refuted by the AP themselves: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-democratic-national...
> WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama assailed President Donald Trump on Monday for ripping migrant children from their parents and throwing them into cages, picking up on a frequent and distorted point made widely by Democrats.
> THE FACTS: The reference to cages is misleading and a matter that Democrats have persistently distorted.
Rayiner's characterization that the AP has never provided "context" for what Trump did is wrong per the above link, which could actually be found in the original link cited.
There are definitely two sides to the story, and a certain amount of research will make that clear, which the OP does not acknowledge.
The controversy was a very specific and cruel Trump administration policy to separate children from their families by automatically criminalizing crossings (typically border crossings are civil rather than criminal offenses, until criminality has been established). It specifically came out of Stephen Miller's 'zero tolerance' policy for illegal immigration. Many of those involved (with the strong exception of Miller himself) have expressed regret for enacting the policy, because it led to permanent separations of children from their parents, before the typical standards of criminal behavior were met. Obviously that is a tremendous trauma for children.
Indeed, there has been misinformation from the opposition, taking pictures of children behind fences out of context in order to make the policy seem more cruel. While in my strong opinion the policy was cruel and was very much intended to be cruel, people on all political sides can and do use social media manipulations to make fallacious points. It's never just 'those people' doing it. So the waters are muddied. I think a good HN post acknowledges the muddiness of the situation, rather than a black-and-white pronouncement--hence the downvoting.
Probably for implying that Trump wasn't that bad, when he clearly was.
I think it ought to have been the SSID, myself, and the password being the correct answer, but I suppose it was a start.