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[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world -4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The Brownshiirts weren’t cops, either, but that didn’t stop them from murdering people.

McSweeney’s: ICE Is Nothing Like the Brownshirts, Because the Brownshirts Actually Identified Themselves

Let’s say it again: ICE is nothing like the Brownshirts. One was an open paramilitary wing of an openly fascist political party, the other is an unaccountable government force operating without clear uniforms, identification, or transparency… for an openly fascist political party. There are SOME similarities between them, that’s true, but ICE is more like… well, we don’t really have a word for it in English. They are like… a government-sanctioned organization that operates without uniforms, masks its identity, infiltrates civilian spaces, and detains people without oversight, like some sort of… secretive… police-like thing.

But just because there isn’t a name for something like that does not give you the right to call ICE agents Brownshirts. That’d be like calling asbestos a “toxin.” Yeah, both will kill you, but THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago

But they are, though