Homicidal ideation
The squalor we are being dragged into:
Online calls for violence against immigrants have surfaced in recent weeks as the border crisis continues to dominate the national conversation. Last week, the Oregonian reported that an Oregon Department of Transportation employee was placed on leave pending an investigation after an outcry over a Facebook comment.
“I personally think they should shoot them all at the border and call it good,” the state worker, Lori McAllen, wrote online, according to the paper. “It’ll save us hard working AMERICAN’S billions of dollars on our taxes! ;)”
Winky winky.
Alabama-based musician Phillip McCain also became the target of a social media outcry after an image of a Facebook comment he made began circulating online, USA Today reported. In the post, McCain said he would “volunteer to shoot” immigrants as “they approach the border,” he wrote. “Problem solved.”
The Post article started with a private in the National Guard who commented in a Facebook group that “they’re lucky we don’t execute them.”
This is one reason why I don’t go on Facebook. My family is in this group, and I would rather not be force fed this nastiness. (I know, I can block the bad ones. My son did that, and still finds himself drawn in because of the relatives he wants to stay in touch with that aren’t willing to block any relatives, no matter how nasty, because they are “family”). My son has recently begun to learn all the things I didn’t share with him about my upbringing, because I didn’t want to scar him for life.