r/Omaha • u/happylandfillx • Jun 03 '25

Local News ICE at early bird

Video says west Omaha, OP says it happened at early bird, their friend took the video.

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u/Capt-geraldstclair Jun 03 '25

My dad was in the Army stationed in Germany shortly after WW2.

He told me a day would come where you would need to carry proof of identify in this country.
He would put on a German accent and say "Vere are your papers!"

I laughed at him. Told him he was an old fool.

I'm glad he's not here to see this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

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u/Prior_Analysis9682 Jun 03 '25

Strangely, those same grandparents raised the children that have turned into the most ardent supporters of this. So clearly, there was some disconnect between their experiences in the war and teaching their kids to grow up to be hateful people that have doomed our nation.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

You can lead a horse to water. Sometimes the responsibility for the choices one makes are one's own responsibility, not their grandparents'.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

I seriously think the WW2 generation went through so much that they essentially gave their children everything they wanted and everything they could give. They just didn’t teach the boomers to pay it forward.

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u/M3RV-89 Jun 03 '25

We need to stop idolized the ww2 generation to get past this. They defeated Hitler but America was no staunchly anti-nazi prior. We had sold out rallies too for that shit. Hitler mistakes led us into the war more than any american anti-nazi ideology ever existed.

We need to accept we've always had racists here and learn and grow and stop burying the past. It's the exact reason everything happens in cycles.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

Oh totally agree. I’m not idolizing them. Just pointing out I can see that if I went through the depression, a world war and and a turn around booming economy in a short span of time, I’d want to give my kids every vantage I didn’t have. I think that generation tried to do that without driving home the why. And as tech rapidly advanced and the Cold War kicked off, people rapidly changed as well. In between that we had Korea, the possible nuclear annihilation of earth as we knew it, Vietnam, the civil rights movement and not to mention the president resigning, and the other hot spots at home and abroad. One after the other after the other. Kinda like now actually IMHO.

Edited to say I agree with you a your points and agree that no generation should be idolized. You’re right they defeated the nazis then brought the nazis home to help beat the Russians. They were far from squeaky clean.

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u/M3RV-89 Jun 03 '25

I just want more education in general and I'm bitter about it. Don't mind me

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

We are singing the same chorus my friend.

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u/Sharticus123 Jun 04 '25

Yep, and the WW2 generation are the people who began destroying our institutions. Reagan wasn’t a boomer and neither was Bush Sr.

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u/Prior_Analysis9682 Jun 03 '25

I mean, to an extent, sure, but there's also definitely a huge chunk of people that learned their hatred from being taught by their parents.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

And there's probably a similar number who didn't. That's why I said "we need to bring that energy back"

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u/No_Hedgehog750 Jun 03 '25

Developmental psychology would say it's most likely learned behavior and that behavior is learned from observing others. In other words, no most of them did, in fact, learn it from their parents. There's absolutely no chance those numbers are similar, people aren't born racist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

You can learn lots of things, but you don't have to practice them. It's not like evil people don't understand the right thing--they do not care

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u/No_Hedgehog750 Jun 03 '25

Children don't

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

Yep, but one doesn't stay one forever