In the land of liberalism, no one is responsible for their own bad actions, but in one way or another, bigoted America is usually to blame. This asinine logic holds true to the brutal immigrant gang known as MS-13, too, according to singer John Legend.
In response to President Donald Trump categorizing those in the violent gang as “animals,” the Left went full defend-MS-13-to-own-the-conservatives. On Thursday, Legend rattled off a quasi-defense of MS-13 on Twitter and rationalized that it is actually “society” and “American policy” that are partly to blame for creating and fostering the murderous gang.
MS-13, for those unfamiliar, is a violent gang started in Los Angeles in the ’80s by Central American immigrants, mostly from El Salvador. The criminal group engages in human trafficking, tortures, gang-rapes, and murders human beings as sacrifices; some of their members have been witnessed in court smiling and laughing over their heinous acts in front of their victims’ families.
“[I]t’s much more honest and challenging to realize they were all babies once and think about what in society, their home life, etc took them from baby to violent gang member. And then to think about collective action we could take to mitigate these conditions,” wrote Legend on Twitter. “And we should particularly interrogate the role of American policy in helping to make MS-13 the organization it is now.”
And, by the way, Legend is not suggesting American immigration policy be tougher to fight against MS-13; he’s suggesting it’s too strict and demagogic, now. “Dehumanizing large groups of people is the demagogue’s precursor to visiting violence and pain upon them. It makes it easier to destroy their families and much worse,” Legend wrote in a follow-up tweet.
Here are Legend’s tweets:
The “Ordinary People” singer uses the collective “we” in some of his tweets, but surely is not a bigoted member of “society” as you are. Much like how The Office’s Michael Scott reasoned, “Society doesn’t care. Society sucks. I don’t even consider myself a part of society.”