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HumanBeing wrote: Mon Feb 23, 2026 3:00 pm

DANAT4T wrote: Mon Feb 23, 2026 1:02 pm

HumanBeing wrote: Mon Feb 23, 2026 12:41 pm
"any collaboration between MAPs and ICE is going to be propagandized about massively"
I don't think ICE will boast about MAPs sending tips to them due to the stigma of MAPs being "monsters" and if it happens it would be in a positive look like "Even the MAPs are helping American people trough ICE" or some shit that could make Far-right people reconsider MAPs as potential tools to whitewash Trump public image of him as a pedophile

Even Hitler protected a few Jews during the Holocaust after all

'Even Hitler protected a few Jews during the Holocaust after all.'
Stop playing nice. It was a Nazi Zionist pact.

I'm was referring to Dr. Eduard Bloch rather than the Havaraa pact but anyways what I mean is that MAPs must win with whatever means available if ICE can be a tool we must use it

I wasn't aware of his case, very interesting to read about it. I don't think that ICE would boast about MAPs sending them tips, but I worry that the news could easily spread through the grapevine to other leftist groups from the members not abducted by ICE, and any attempt at inroads with the broader queer community for MAPs would be cut off permanently if the story becomes big enough news. Anyone who isn't a straight, white GL is also open to targeting in the US by these paramilitary forces that have a strong notion of "guilty until proven innocent," too, and has none of the strength in community non-MAPs can have by join up with others protesting ICE, due to fears of being turned on by your own community for the 'sin' of being a MAP and the dangers of mob violence. This situation also isn't too similar to Bloch's, either, there's no MAP doctor treating an ICE agent for an injury, this is actively opening up vulnerable people to be disappeared, tortured, potentially systematically killed due to poor conditions or worse.

Still, having mulled it over some more I do understand Brian's point. A group described as a 'gang' by some is bound to be made up of cowardly bullies; a threat against them could be useful for getting them to stop going after their victims like the Bt+ members. If this is something you're going to do, think it through long and hard beforehand.