Twitter thread offers powerful context as kids are ripped from parents
Facts can only do so much. The Trump administration-authored policy of separating migrant children from their parents has sparked outrage all across the United States. As horrible as the basic facts are to most rational sensibilities, they're easy to distort on paper -- as one Gizmodo reporter's Twitter thread makes clear. In recent days, news media organizations have gotten the chance to step inside a number of the detention centers that have been established for housing these kids. And for every chill-inducing thread that details their daily reality, there are tweets like this one that work to hand-wave away any concerns. When Gizmodo's Dell Cameron saw the above tweet from the Breitbart News Tonight host, he felt compelled to respond. He wanted to make sure everyone is clear on a key point: New clothes, essential facilities, and field trips don't change the fact that we're witnessing child abuse on a grand scale. Cameron should know. In a deeply personal thread, he described the experience of being placed in a group home at a very young age as a custody battle played out in Texas courts. It's not about what you're given or granted access to while the state is looking after you, Cameron explained; it's about understanding that the act of ripping families apart is traumatizing. Now, Cameron can only speak to his own, personal experience. But his thread offers firsthand insight into what someone who's been through a similar situation experienced and felt during and after his forced family separation. It's a layer of detail that doesn't come out in news reports or even eyewitness accounts from those who have seen the inside of detention facilities. Facts are more important now than they've ever been. But it's so easy to get caught up in running through the bullet points of What's Wrong in the U.S. in 2018 that we can end up overlooking the human tragedy that's piling up around all of this. Cameron's thread, then, offers a stark reminder of what that tragedy can look like. Please make sure to read Cameron's entire thread. TopicsActivismSocial GoodDonald TrumpTweet may have been deleted
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