Ta-Nehisi Coates
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And I think it's an important distinction to make
that this is only kind of about deportation.
It's really about punishment.
Like that's really like the infliction of pain.
I don't think we've had a head of the Department of Homeland Security turning that into effectively a reality show.
Cosplaying, doing makeup, posing.
You put all that together and it's different.
It's different, right?
And saying that it's different doesn't mean it doesn't have precedent.
It does.
It does.
It does.
But it's also different.
All of that is like, like some of that just wasn't possible, by the way.
Like it's new because it wasn't possible.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It is armed identity politics.
That's what it is.
Like, it's the worst, you know, some would argue, and I probably would agree that all politics is identity politics, but all politics isn't this particular identity politics, you know?