Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Opinion | DHS fights a holy war on social media - The Washington Post
The videos conjure a veritable holy war, in which God's soldiers prepare to battle evil, a.k.a. undocumented immigrants. These adversaries are largely implied, rendered as shadows visible only through night vision goggles — a stunning bit of dehumanization. As in a lot of propaganda, facts get twisted to fit the message. The quote from Isaiah is wildly out of context. Read the chapters from which it is drawn, and you'll learn that God was asking Isaiah not to spearhead a masked army, but to warn against profligacy and corruption. "Learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor," reads a verse in Chapter 1, "defend the fatherless, plead for the widow." In other words, nothing to do with a helicopter full of people armed to the teeth...
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