Please don't nuke my reaction on the meme post lol

This was upsetting, but I think (read hope) the main reactions on these 2 is how absolutely transparently viewed they've been. Reading about the horrific things people in detention centers are subjected to, and sometimes die in, is also horrific but requires you to step into an empathetic mode that is more "work" than viscerally seeing the acts. The right has been trying to cut down on empathy for years, and with media pumping far away horrors and tweaking for American sensitivities, it seems that push has done wonders for their push. But they still can't overcome seeing something just so evil to Americans.

This isn't me saying that I am in the camp that needs to see it to feel that rage, but I think it's what has really triggered this specific case. I earnestly hope that if this were any human beings being executed in the streets people would be just as infuriated.

Note: its (stupidly) going to be a while before Americans see something like this abroad to react anything other than mildly because of the atrocious nationalism that's baked into us as kids.