Prof Warns Blowing Whistles to Alert Others to ICE Could ‘Retraumatize’ Hispanics
“Loud noises are not neutral, and can retraumatize individuals.”
Isn’t it funny how none of this ever came up during Obama’s presidency? It’s as if ICE only exists under Trump.
The College Fix reports:
Blowing whistles to alert others to ICE could ‘retraumatize’ Hispanics, professor says
A professor at the University of Washington said that loud noises could “retraumatize” illegal immigrants after whistles were passed out on campus to alert people to nearby Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity.
“I wanted to share that a group of Hispanic/Latine and immigrant-serving nonprofits in Maryland have brought up some important points related to the use of whistles and issued a joint statement warning local protesters to stop using whistles during ICE encounters,” assistant professor Ana Dueñas wrote in an email, according to Seattle Red.
The professor also stated that “Loud noises are not neutral, and can retraumatize individuals.”
She sent the email to the American Association of University Professors email listserv as well as her fellow faculty.
Another professor, Diane Morrison, responded stating, “These concerns also prompt me to suggest that in this volatile time it would behoove all of us to learn about/refresh our understanding of tactics of non-violent resistance, and our commitment to it.”
A third professor, Nora Kenworthy, also chimed in to say that efforts to oppose ICE will not be perfect.
“…that is because citizens are being forced to defend themselves against a highly volatile, militarized, and aggressive force in their communities with little more than community organizing tools and tactics,” she wrote.
She added that ICE agents, rather than the protesters, are the ones making situations “dangerous.”
Last week, hundreds of anti-ICE protesters, including students from the UW’s Students for Democratic Society chapter, briefly occupied an administration building on campus as part of a nationwide “ICE Out” day, Fox 13 Seattle reported.
The protest aimed to pressure university administrators to sever all ties with ICE and refuse to provide information to the federal agency.
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I live in Tucson. I meet and deal with Hispanics on a daily basis. The team that repaired damage and did remodeling in my home were all Hispanic right up to the father / son team owning the company.
None of these men struck me as the type to be traumatized by much of anything, much less the sound of a gym coach whistle.
Shhhhh. Just let these fools talk themselves out of their own idiocy with more idiocy.
“The professor also stated that “Loud noises are not neutral, and can retraumatize individuals.”
Therefore, we should use “desensitization therapy.”
Carry whistles, and blow them everywhere in “sanctuary” neighborhoods. Repeated exposure to this sound will in this manner desensitize individuals and help cure their traumas.
That’s not a bad idea. If they want to blow whistles and set off car alarms every time they see law enforcement, maybe we should flood them with false alarms. Eventually they’ll get tired of people crying wolf and start to tune it out which will allow law enforcement to do their jobs unhampered.
“The car alarm’s going off for the fiftieth time this week? I’m tired of getting up and running outside when nothing’s there.”
Is this one of those dog whistle claims democrats are so fond of?
I’m co rodent that the 2 “professors” would also have a fit if exposed to a Speedy Gonzales cartoon.
Confident
Always notice it’s never a Pepe La Pew cartoon?
What? the “trauma” of coming across the border illegally? No one told them to do that. Typical Leftist bleeding heart nonsense.
Joe did.
He whispered “don’t,” but he did it like Scarlett O’Hara.
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