Halsey stormed Twitter on Friday after seeing a photo of three Mexican immigrants with numbers stamped on their arms to indicate their place on a list to seek asylum in the United States.
Though she didn’t explicitly say it, she made terrifying, but very real, comparisons to the Holocaust, where those imprisoned in concentration camps had numbers tattooed on them as a form of identification. “so how historically formulaic does this need to be before we recognize the path this is taking… fucking hell,” she wrote. “don’t say ‘numbers?! what’s next?!’ because they aren’t hiding the pattern from you. you know what’s next.”
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“May I ask; in 2018 are we really incapable of printing physical forms of identification?” she continued. “This seems like a fear tactic meant to make you draw the inevitable comparison… does it not?”
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so how historically formulaic does this need to be before we recognize the path this is taking… fucking hell…
don’t say “numbers?! what’s next?!”
because they aren’t hiding the pattern from you. you know what’s next. https://t.co/hW8rUkJNwA
— h (@halsey) December 1, 2018
May I ask; in 2018 are we really incapable of printing physical forms of identification? This seems like a fear tactic meant to make you draw the inevitable comparison… does it not? https://t.co/iFGrSbpvVl
— h (@halsey) December 1, 2018