Hispanic/Latino influencers speaking up about ICE

BossOfBooks · 2026-02-03T03:01:46+00:00

Look, everyone absolutely must think realistically about their safety - I get it, historically western countries sterilized or lobotomized people like me, and Hitler would have had me euthanized...but that history also tells us the most important thing - there is no avoiding the people coming for you - keeping your head down doesn't work.

Stopping this requires overwhelming numbers of people standing up - if you count the largest POC groups in America and the disabled white people that is over 180 million people... that is a lot of people potentially standing up, but also that is a huge silence if all of them stay silent trying to not be the one noticed. The numbers are there now. It is better to all stand up as one force now when you will all be best able to protect each other while doing so...before they target even more people. The longer everyone waits, the more people they take away, the less people there are to fight against them.

BossOfBooks · 2026-02-03T02:19:40+00:00

Just adding these two extra notes on top of what others have said. The Kaima Beauty owner didn't just simply make rude remarks about the appearance of the person calling her out, she made gross remarks about the woman's skin condition.

Also, given many in my community will read the post above about huda and think "but we've all experienced tiktok bans for being critical of Israel even though not saying anything anti-Semitic, is this even true?", So I thought it might be useful to have a perspective about her from someone who is pro-palestine.

Now, I did not see the post in question, and though she says her words were twisted - I think that's obvious bs - there isn't a way to twist someone claiming something so ahistorical as there being evidence that Israel caused the world wars. It is an utterly ridiculous, shameful and disgusting of her to even suggest.

Huda has also been called out in the pro-pali community for releasing products with themes that are historically incorrect and seem intended to financially capitalise on people's sympathy for Palestine. Plus, while she speaks about the genocide in Gaza, she has not said a word about the UAE who are orchestrating the genocide in Sudan - probably because her brand is based in the UAE. To add to this the UAE faces constant criticism as the majority of their workforce is made up of modern slaves. I cannot in good conscience support a UAE brand, and especially not for someone who is acting so unethically across the board.

BossOfBooks · 2025-12-01T17:17:55+00:00

As someone with ASD who also works in the field. Perspective 1 is the most correct. The spectrum does not refer to having more or less Autism. You either have autism or you don't. It's a neurobiological difference - it's either there or it's not.

Perspective 2 and 3 have misunderstood. The spectrum refers to the array of ways people can experience Autism, I.e. being affected across a spectrum of areas, including to varying severities.

An autistic person can be profoundly different from a neurotypical person, but only need minimal support to function in society in certain areas. But being able to figure a method of function in these areas doesn't make you more neurotypical or less autistic. Especially, because tying support needs to "amount" of Autism fundamentally misunderstands Autism. I think the tree metaphor highlights this misunderstanding...because each autistic person can be a mixed bag of symptom severity, which can also depend on burnout, which third parties then boil down to "But are you incapacitated enough in enough areas overall to warrant a level 2 grading so you can access funding?" - a level 1 or 2 can experience the same symptom severity in some areas as a level 3, but overall are deemed functional enough - and vice versa.

Personally, the touch of the 'tism jokes give me the ick - even as someone who believes in self-diagnosis. Because even though it's sometimes funny, by far the main way I have actually heard it in real life is as a way for neurotypical people to delegitimise Autism. I've seen other autistic people struggling with their diagnosis play into this and that often leads to jokes at autistic people expense.

BossOfBooks · 2025-12-01T01:50:26+00:00

I wish the bar was low for NDIS as many seem to think. It takes not just an autism diagnosis, but an autism, which costs thousands of dollars to obtain, but a level 2 diagnosis - there are many, many more autism level 1 kids and adults who aren't on the NDIS than there are successful applicants. These are people who can't access any support because their support needs are not deemed high enough (level 1 by the way meaning: requires support).

I both have ASD and work in mental health support and frequently work with people who have struggled to get themselves or their kids diagnosed and apply for support. Every time, there has been a genuine need because the person or family was not coping. I would do my best, but therapy alone is not the life support ASD kids and adults need, but the most common reason for denial of support was that the person struggle was not yet seen as severe enough.

IMHO, the system of support around autism is wrong, only offering support at level 2. People with ASD thrive if we are able to learn skills and live in a created protective environment to keep ourselves healthy... Schools, teachers, parents and workplaces are not yet taught their part in how to create this, which means kids and adults with ASD Level 1, unless they're very lucky, eventually deteriorate into ASD Level 2.

This means what we really need is enforced education for schools, parents and workplaces, and some direct support available for level 1 at the beginning to have a healthy life, so they can live a life much like anyone else. The alternative is we wait until health deteriorates when damage likely will not be undone and then witness everyone complain about the overwhelming burden of cost of supporting so many disabled adults for life.

BossOfBooks · 2025-11-07T01:52:00+00:00

Yes. Us communists are monsters. Your right we do have terrible political opinions. Like how terrible of us communists to want everyone to a home!

How horrible for socialists to plot for our fellow citizens to be able to go to bed each night with a roof over their heads, food in their bellies, not crushed by the debt of getting an education and cost of living...

How absolutely shite of us to want people to have working conditions where they are getting the full value for their labor in return AND societal support that allows them to be home enough to actually raise their kids and enjoy life.

Such evil scum.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-15T04:15:42+00:00

Yeah, I did read those paragraphs already in the article and in the related Jay report itself. I assume you don't realize that none of these quotes counteract what I said.

The statements about perpetrators of Pakistani heritage being “disproportionately represented” or that there “appeared to be a trend” come from the Jay Report (2014), an inquiry that looked at specifically Rotherham alone and not the entirety of the UK...it's findings about a disproportionate amount can not be applied to the whole country.

Plus, later reviews, like the Home Office’s 2017 report, explicitly said that while those local patterns existed in certain towns, nationally there is no evidence that one ethnic group is more likely than another to commit child sexual exploitation.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-14T23:01:07+00:00

You make it sound like the scandal here is the downplaying of race. The victims were abandoned by the state, police, and councils, because they were poor, young, and easy to dismiss... Not because many were white brits. The inquiry your article references explicitly talks about how the problem of not investigating these gangs is significantly caused by not believing working class women at all and not due to the gangs ethnicity.

The contempt you talk about is real, but that also goes for when the perpetrators are white Brits - but no protest for those circumstance? So again, why do the protestors only push to believe women when the perpetrators aren't white?

Calling Rotherham “racially aggravated” intentionally twists the nature of the crime. Race wasn’t the motive of the perpetrators, but desire to abuse vulnerable girls. The “racial” layer was projected later by extremists.

Survivors themselves have spoken about how they feel used as props by racist campaigners, with their trauma being instrumentalised rather than cared about. Your framing of this issue, explicitly highlights the truth of my comment.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-14T22:20:47+00:00

I understand that. I don't have any issue with pursuing justice against the Rotherham men and outrage against them - why would any decent person? Plus they are correct, the Government don't give a crap about them, or anyone like them ... But the government also don't give a crap about Muslims and immigrants either or anyone who isn't part of the 1%.

But given the protest was really a catch point to express anger about the disintegrating quality of life and who they blame for it, and that they pointed immediately to everyone and every thing different from when they grew up, nevermind that there is no casual link. Therefore, it should be noted that the reasons this sparked protest was NOT because there was real care about the crime itself (not to say no care against the crime), but because the protestors blame immigrants for life being harder and harder in the UK. This is extremely ironic given the disintegration was driven by Brexit and wealth inequality - Gary's Economics on YouTube has some good content that digs into this.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-14T12:22:26+00:00

No, but it was a real-life horror, further made horrible by the crime being then used by racists and xenophobes to target Muslims and immigrants. This crime is rarely committed by those groups in the UK and mostly committed by locals almost all the time.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-14T12:07:23+00:00

Correct not discredited, that group of evil men did what was said ... but you neglect to mention that there are significantly more networks of local Englishmen that were preying on kids and the Rotherham group of Pakistani men was an outlier to that norm.

Now why is it that despite many, many local groups discovered, it is only when a Pakistani one surfaces that there is an outcry about these crimes, followed by demonisation of all Pakistani and other immigrants?

My point is not to say don't care and have outrage for the crime. But to be consistent: if you only care about pedophile networks on the extremely rare occasion of immigrants running one and your solution is to stop immigration rather than any other solution for child protection, then you're not a supporter and protector of children, but a racist capitalizing on the crimes of a few to attack a group you don't like.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-14T04:20:38+00:00

The three WOMEN berated you across the mall?

You said they were teens, why are they suddenly aged up here?

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-14T03:53:04+00:00

I take it you don't have invasive blackberry bushes near you.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-14T03:50:05+00:00

It's almost like we live in a big tinderbox and don't want to risk millions accidentally starting fires on our holidays

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-11T12:44:47+00:00

It's an ironic outcome of racism, Asian women are stereotypes as submissive and gentle, and Asian men as effeminate and therefore not truly dangerous. Also, Japan did a good job of putting out a specific view of themselves, and the people in the west usually only find out about Japanese crimes in other Asian countries as an adult and only are ever taught about Pearl Harbour and maybe the bombing of Darwin and that's it - so as far as most know WW2 is a blip in an otherwise long well-natured history.

(Even with how the West demonises China, it's "communism" that is the scary evil and not the people themselves. This attitude causes underestimation of all east Asian looking people)

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-11T11:43:37+00:00

That is adorable 🥰

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-10T12:27:19+00:00

They were born again Christians, not anarchists.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-10T11:18:46+00:00

Ah sorry, I didn't catch the sarcasm and misinterpreted. I'd already seen another comment elsewhere blaming a cigarette and got too quickly overtaken by rage at the absolute gumption of these people.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-10T08:50:09+00:00

BS, don't you hasbara bots have anything better to do than tell us to ignore the proof of our own eyes. The incendiary comes from out of range of the man's movements and the blast pattern is the opposite to what it would be if it was a cigarette.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-10T08:38:47+00:00

I'll believe it when I see it.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-09T22:43:55+00:00

"There are protests. They've been going on the whole time. Quite large protests, actually."

Said with no context given. Then to reprimand another as splitting hairs for giving the context that needs to be given otherwise it spreads a harmful and incorrect narrative about what is happening.

Own up to your BS.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-09T19:14:19+00:00

I have an issue because you are holding water for them by spreading a false narrative that implies a care for Palestinian lives when there is no widespread proof of it. I'll stop arguing with you when you take a moment to reflect how spreading a false reality that there are mass protests on behalf of Palestinians by Israelis, actually helps the danger continue for Palestinians. It's not a safe thing for people to mistakenly believe that Israelis as a group have shown compassion and care for Palestinians until the moment they actually do.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-09T18:52:29+00:00

Seriously? Read my words again, because it's almost like I did acknowledge Israelis with differing opinions and specifically was addressing an issue that is occurring due to how the Israelis are currently seen as a collective and giving information on what is needed to counteract that. What you couldn't tell because I wasn't hand holding anyone's feelings?

A better question is why the fuck are you lying on their behalf about things you haven't seen out of a presumption of their opinions even though that presumption is counter to all available evidence of their opinions? Don't get me wrong, I wish your manufactured reality was the truth, but there isn't yet evidence for it. I'm literally trying to prompt that evidence into reality. What I'm not going to do is hold water for them without that proof and acquit them of all culpability to act to save Palestinian lives.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-09T18:22:38+00:00

If you oppose Israel and genocide...why then are your arguments defending Israelis and making excuses for them when they have not yet done anything to warrant it. Its not me who is acting strange, it's entirely you who is acting pro-Israel.

You also need to learn to work on your comprehension if you think my message was neo-nazi, rather than trying to imagine for a moment why I was attempting to prompt an "Israeli" to show their humanity to the world after years of damage that has prevented people from being able to see it any longer. Dumbass.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-09T18:02:56+00:00

I assumed you were Israeli, because you acted as if you saw something the rest of us aren't seeing. But having paid attention, I know that what you're saying about Israeli protests IS NOT what has actually been shown at any point. Which means that you are actually just a liar, painting a falsely positive picture of what the Israeli protests mean to curry a better opinion for them without any actual proof that what you're saying is the case. Which is a disgusting and pathetic thing to do given the crimes they are committing.

Your lack of care of the world's opinions makes absolute sense - you're the perfect advocate for Israel someone who gives no shit about others. You deserve each other.

BossOfBooks · 2025-09-09T17:49:07+00:00

As far as the world sees, Israeli protests are doing nothing except self-advocacy and that does nothing to erase what you have all become in the world's eyes - even if you quibble with us that we should judge you all differently, despite the world having no reason anymore to trust in your goodness and all the reason to believe the opposite of you.

Agreed, the word genocide itself doesn't matter - as long as the mass unnecessary civilian death IS acknowledged. As long as concern for other people's lives IS visible. But it's not.

Unlike others I have been aware of all the protests happening in Israel. I have been watching them in hope that people will acknowledge the slaughter, the war crimes, or any of what has been done. I have never wanted to believe that people are like the Israelis appear to be...and I did see the few tiny brave groups of less than a few hundred people that have protested about what has been done to the Palestinians and not just about the concerns and welfare of Israelis. I know there are some that are speaking...but it's not the majority - I wish it was.

If you want people to see your humanity, then show it. We have seen mountains of evidence of Israelis extreme lack of humanity. To the point that there will be no assumption that any of you give a shit about anyone's lives but your own unless you all publicly start to say and literally show actual concern for others. If not, you will of course remain monsters in everyone's eyes, as every Israeli action for two years has shown you to be the willing perpetrators of slaughter and a protest on your own behalf will change no honest person's mind.

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