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Breaking news! Liberal political scientist can't comprehend the concept of 'compradors'.
(hexbear.net)
I always knew the Liberal academia was white-centric but this level of ignorance is astounding!
Ngl I like, generally understand the concept and I’m aware that compradors exist in every persecution but I do also definitely feel the “How the fuck could you do this, and how stupid are you to think this will save you?”
We’re not talking about people in concentration camps who’re getting extra food or something for being a snitch, these people could simply not join ICE or CBP. Go work for McDonald’s or something dude, the pay is barely less and it’s way easier on the conscience.
As the Spanish empire was less hung up on the idea of avoiding intermarriage with the natives than the English were, there’s much more of a spectrum of latinos from an ethnic standpoint. There’s some that are entirely or nearly entirely indigenous, likewise with Spaniard ethnicity, a whole bunch of in-between, plus afro-latinos. This creates a dynamic where some latinos think they prove their “good one”/European status by showing sufficient fealty and service to the nation, especially in the form of expelling the “bad”/indigneous latinos.
"Every colonized people - in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality - finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in pro- portion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle." - Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Mask.
ICE advertised a signing bonus that is way higher than anything McDonald's would give you.
And ICE agents have been bitching on Reddit that the money they were promised is nowhere to be seen lmao
McDonald's doesn't have $50k signing bonuses, nor does it give you a gun and make you feel "tough."
ICE doesn’t give $50k signing bonuses either, going by the complaints of the goons in question
CBP doesn’t do that, never has, and never claimed to, and yet 50% of their staff are fucking kapos
i.e. people who only found out after they took the job and are probably still being strung along that they'll get it eventually if they don't quit.
The clause in their contract actually says they have to pay the bonus back if they quit before a couple of years
And that's the full bonus, pre-tax
Which, lol, hope you have some good savings
Okay so either they’re evil cruel people, or they’re both unbelievably desperate and also the dumbest people on the planet. Anyone could and did tell them that bonus would never materialize
Hard to say how much is ignorance, how much is believing atrocity propaganda, etc.
But also, idk man $50k is a lot of money but it’s not that much money. I have a STEM degree and could certainly make more money if I decided to do work that would kill people but I don’t want to kill people and so I do aging research and it didn’t take me a fucking moment of thinking to make that decision
Unless you’re being starved, it’s not that hard to not deliberately take a job to hurt specifically your community, and trying to come up with a “material conditions” based analysis to explain it I feel like takes away the agency of these monsters. They chose to do this, of their own free will, and they should hang for it. If they were truly pushed into it, that feels like excusing their actions.
I'm not trying to downplay the agency of these monsters, just saying that they probably care way more about money than anything else and don't really have any sort of moral compass. I'm not saying they were "forced into it" or anything like that, just that they like money and don't care about the people around them because our society is so atomized. The real mystery here is why that supposedly doesn't fit into any liberal political theory?
ICE is probably the only job out there right now in the US that is (1) hiring like gangbusters with basically zero qualifications and (2) pays really well. I know a couple long-term unemployed people whose lives would be fixed in many ways if they signed up, except for the fact that they'd be doing nazi shit.
Again though, does it pay really well? It seems like it doesn’t at all
And that still doesn’t explain decades of CBP being like 50% Hispanic
For the latter I think it’s because they mainly operate along the southern border and thus recruit in that area, which has a lot of Hispanic people.