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You will never convince me that's not some overtly racist intentional cruelty.
It's partly that I'm sure and also to dehumanize them further. It's not mentioned in the article but I would imagine they aren't given silverware and have to eat with their hands. In american culture it is often seen as a lowly/animalistic thing to eat with your hands*. So they can continue to see them as not human because they "don't eat like one".
*see the republican reaction to mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doing so.
What are you talking about? Americans eat with their hands all the time. Sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, pizza, and yes, burritos. I can almost guarantee every one of those ICE agents eats multiple meals a week with their hands. Are you even American?
They're being abused because they're being deprived food, not because they aren't given a cloth napkin and a set of utensils to eat a burrito.
Cognative disonance is a hell of a thing. It's only ok to eat the "right" things with your hands and I would say most white people would not include burritos in that list. Are we really going to pretend that it hasn't been a repeated attack on POC that when they eat with their hands it's "uncivilized"? I'm not saying it's rational or consistent I'm simply saying it's a thing I've seen people in my personal life do and a thing a congressman got mocked for extremely recently.
Are you American? Because this seems like an America fanfic post rather than someone who has ever existed in American culture.
White people eat burritos. With their hands. That's like the whole point of a burrito. Someone reaching for a fork and knife to eat a burrito would get ridiculed.
You know what Im not gonna lie. I kept doubling down on a stupid point.
I am absolutely american though unfortunately.
Pretty sure burritos are the quintessential hand food to most people, with the sole exception of like loaded versions where it's so stuffed with foodstuffs that it would disintegrate in ones hands. We don't need to point to cultural trends that exist in an exceptionally limited capacity if at all to note that they're dehumanization people, id agree with you if it was pasta or something but frankly in this case it may just be that they are lazy and don't want to deal with utensils so they went with a hand food.
...how else does one eat a burrito?
Question: are you thinking the kind of burrito served on a plate with sauce over the top and usually rice and beans on the side, or the kind that comes wrapped in foil or plastic that might go through a microwave but which everyone would think you are low-key insane for eating with utensils?
You mean an enchilada?
No, I don’t. I mean a burrito.
case-in-point: this tv show was an enormous cultural phenomenon in 90s america