06-26-2019, 08:41 PM
Steve G. wrote:
As you know, I have often posted about propaganda shot and tabloid distortions meant to mold opinion. I think the picture of the father and 2 year old daughter who drowned while trying to cross into the U.S. is such a case. It is being used to whip up sentiment and anger. Apparently the publishers and politicians flashing it around don't think the real border misery is enough, so they have to resort to this kind of tactic.
It's a step too far in my opinion,boardingbordering on unsavory exploitive horror.
Let me get this straight.
Publishing photographs of grave consequences visited upon desperate people to illustrate the reality of their abjection to the residents of a country evidently blind and deaf to their pain is wrong because it's "unsavory" and "exploitive"?
Get over yourself. These dead can't be exploited - they have had everything stolen from them already, including their humanity. Ask the wife and mother if they want the world to know about their loss. Ask if they think the world should witness their pain and grieve with them. This is timely. This is relevant. This is appropriate and it is necessary.
These people died because we are unwilling to observe our own national and international laws allowing asylum-seekers to cross legally into the U.S. to make their case. They waited for two months in a shelter on the border and were never allowed to present themselves for relief.
There's nothing sensational about that. There's nothing bizarre or unique about their circumstances, or the fatal outcome. Nearly three hundred people (at the least) died trying to cross the border last year, and the numbers will certainly be higher this year. We have done this, we as Americans. They're not crossing Trump's border, they're crossing OUR border.
I'm not a click-bait magazine or newspaper or website, so keep your accusations to yourself.
This is all that remains, outside of memory, of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria:
This is his wife and her mother, Tania Vanessa Ávalos, describing what happened to Mexican authorities:
