When you strip away humanity — Transcript

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1. 0:00There's always been racism in it. That's
2. 0:02it's mainly what it is, you know,
3. 0:05because if if you really cared about
4. 0:07people coming over the right way, the
5. 0:09legal way, then you would make the right
6. 0:11way and the legal way clear, and you
7. 0:13wouldn't kidnap people at their green
8. 0:15card interviews, and you you wouldn't
9. 0:17have like mass people picking people up
10. 0:20after baseball practice. Okay? If if
11. 0:23that's what you cared about. And you
12. 0:25also, you know, you've structured this
13. 0:28thing to make these people seem like
14. 0:32monsters. That's been the plan this
15. 0:34entire time. Because if somebody is a
16. 0:36monster,
17. 0:37it is it is part of the human condition
18. 0:40and a flaw that we have, as long as we
19. 0:42see somebody as a monster, whether they
20. 0:44are or not, we don't really care what
21. 0:47happens to them. You know, it's it's why
22. 0:50they can make conditions in prison so
23. 0:53bad because the assumption is, well,
24. 0:55everybody that's there deserves to be
25. 0:56there, so screw them, right? If they
26. 0:59don't have a clean water or if they
27. 1:01can't shower or if their food's
28. 1:02contaminated, good. Because they did
29. 1:05something bad to earn that place, right?
30. 1:08And it helps you strip the basic
31. 1:10humanity of looking at another person,
32. 1:12whether they've made a mistake or not,
33. 1:14or looking at another person, whether
34. 1:16from a different country or not. And if
35. 1:17you get really good at stripping that
36. 1:20humanity away, you can do whatever you
37. 1:22want. And then you start to be able to
38. 1:23do whatever you want to anybody that you
39. 1:26want. And that's what's been creeping up
40. 1:27this entire time. What started as like,
41. 1:30guys, they're eating the dogs.
42. 1:33Remember, remember they're eating the
43. 1:35dogs. They're eating the cats. Nobody's
44. 1:37pets are safe. It was getting so dumb.
45. 1:39It was past like these are criminals and
46. 1:42they're killing us and they're coming
47. 1:43over here to do terrible things. And
48. 1:45then it started to morph a little bit
49. 1:46more. Okay, look, I know that they're
50. 1:49going through the proper channels and
51. 1:50everything, but they have a misdemeanor
52. 1:52in another country. Do we really want
53. 1:54somebody like that to become a citizen,
54. 1:56maybe we should deport them now? No, I
55. 1:58understand that they have their green
56. 1:59card, but they also, I don't know, they
57. 2:02have this weird past I don't like, or
58. 2:04they wrote an op-ed I didn't like, or
59. 2:05they said a thing that I didn't like.
60. 2:07So, do we really want someone like that
61. 2:08in our country? I know that they are
62. 2:10fully naturalized citizen, but the way
63. 2:12that they became a citizen is a little
64. 2:14bit under suspect cuz I said so just
65. 2:16now. So maybe we'll deport them. And now
66. 2:18we're all the way to the point that
67. 2:20American citizens that I do not like can
68. 2:23be gone.
69. 2:25And so you see when you let somebody's
70. 2:28humanity get stripped away over and over
71. 2:30and over again and it's in the back of
72. 2:32your head and you even go with the lie.
73. 2:34Ah, they probably did something or maybe
74. 2:36they shouldn't have done that thing or
75. 2:38maybe maybe they have a good reason.
76. 2:40When you do that enough and it finally
77. 2:42comes for you, don't be surprised.