Ms. Rachel Says ‘I Am Political’ as She Fights to Close ICE Facility in Texas That’s Detaining Children: ‘It’s Political to Believe Every Child Is Equal’

>“I am political,” Accurso told the news outlet. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border.”

Tonight we ride for Ms Rachel!

I don’t watch her stuff, as I’m not a toddler, but she seems like a great person.

Ms. Rachel deserves every bit of fame and success she has earned.

>Per NBC News: “Children have complained of limited education, lights that never turn off and moldy food” at Dilley. Amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, “more than 2,300 children” have been put into detention with their parents, “with the overwhelming majority held at Dilley, according to figures provided by court-appointed monitors. Many have been held for several weeks or months.” >Accurso recently had a video call with 9-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who was detained at Dilley along with his parents in early March. It was her second video call with a detained child, the first being with a 5-year-old named Gael. >Speaking to NBC News, Accurso said: “It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life… We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together.” >Accurso is now working with lawyers and immigration activists “to close Dilley and make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong.” >“I am political,” Accurso told the news outlet. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border.”

If this is the face we rally behind I’m all in 🫡

Good move to simply own it to get right to the point that matters. Whether or not she's political takes away from her cause, which isn't even about her specifically. She's not only seemingly incredibly active in this, but really f****** good at it.

Imagine being so cartoonishly evil that you managed to radicalize the woman who teaches toddlers how to point to their nose. If youre on the opposite side of Ms Rachel and Mr Rogers, you really need to sit down and rethink every life choice that led you to this point.

Godspeed, Ms. Rachel. I admire her so much for not backing down.

"It's not political" applies to a lot of things, but nowadays I mostly see it invoked by people who want to shut down conversations about the heinous, obviously political shit they support.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” ― James Baldwin

Ms. Rachel is the Millennial Mr. Rogers.

Hop little bunny!

It’s sad how many things these monsters have made political. Just being a kind, decent person is somehow political now The right, and MAGAts in particular, have really fucked the world up with their pathetic culture war

Unfortunately being a good person is political these days.

Preschool teacher doesn't think toddlers should go to prison. Damn, so controversial.

People demonizing Ms. Rachel are human scum.

Like I said in another post, she’s the modern Mister Rogers with all the honor that entails.

Yo either live long enough to watch Ms. Rachel or die for Ms.Rachel. My child has the confidence to speak because of her. I would watch the world burn if it meant Rachel is ok.

>‘It’s Political to Believe Every Child Is Equal’ Evidently. You would have thought that was something we all could agree on, but here we are

How quickly would the US military respond if any country started rounding up US citizen children, separating them from parents, then shipping them wherever? I don't understand how this is tolerated because it has to "hurt".

Honestly in times like these if you don't take a political stance it is a tacit endorsement of the current status quo. Which in itself is damning.

Caillou would never

I have no idea who this person is, but I like her! Go get 'em girl!!

Life is political. It shouldn’t be, but when a large portion of the population thinks some people are inherently inferior and less deserving of basic human rights, then their very existence becomes political. Human rights should be a no brainer.

Insane that something like "All children deserve human rights" is indeed a f****** political and "controversial" statement now.

People who say they aren't political might as well be saying they don't care about what happens to themselves or their loved ones. Our lives are shaped by policies and laws and a million decisions that are made by people with varying levels of power. People who say they don't care about politics are embarrassing, pathetic human beings.

I’m actually super cool with her being out president if the new requirements is that they been on tv

Everything is political, from your coffee in the morning, your commute to-and-from work, the TV you watch at night, and yes—whether you think it's good to detain children in a concentration camp. People who like to think otherwise have probably not thought deeply enough about their own circumstances.

If you haven't seen the drone footage it is scary. Hundreds of children detained, everyone dressed in colored jackets and kids waving at the drone.

The fact that they even DETAIN children like animals is beyond the pale. It's hard to imagine a more fucked up scenario than that. Helpless kids being detained by ICE inside a building with cages and barred windows after they have been ripped away from their parents and tossed in like trash. It's disgusting and I will never respect another Republican again until they completely denounce this whole practice and work for awhile to correct it. What's really crazy though is they support it. So f*** them

Mr. Rogers testified in front of Congress. Everything is political. Everything we do is funded at least partially by the governments we elect. Everyone has a responsibility to step up where they can.

"Stop hurting people" shouldn't be a political statement Been saying that for awhile now. Keep on Ms Rachel

They complain about this shit being political because they want to believe that "children in camps" isn't political. Because that would absolve them of being f****** monsters.

I hate when people tell me they “aren’t political”… it’s so childish. Cool let other people make decisions for you.

I'd genuinely vote for Ms. Rachel as president. I prioritize moral courage above pretty much anything else at this point. I trust she'd be capable of picking knowledgeable expert advisors in any subject area, and to make executive decisions in mind on behalf of all people.

This is a problem intrinsic to mass detainment with the intent to deport. Either you separate the children from their detained parents, which is abhorrent or you detain children along with their parents which is abhorrent.

I shouldn’t have to explain to people why locking up children in cages or government sponsored kidnapping of their parents is evil at work. I loathe the fact that common decency is political and “woke” now.

"we love Ms. Rachel, we will ride to war for her!" *Ms. Rachel asks people to organize to help stop fascism* "Hey now whoa now, you're over stepping here, I don't have time for that, settle down." Is what I imagine will happen.

F*** yes Ms. Rachel!!!

One of the biggest mistakes was to let people believe there is any apolitical belief. At this point it’s just become an excuse not to engage.

It's kind of impossible to be an educator and non-political. The first thing I heard from my university lecturer's mouth was "every teacher is politically active. to educate is to be political"

F*** yeah, I stand with Miss Rachel and happy kids who aren’t being attacked by ice. Why is this a thing, America!?

Imagine being against anything this woman says and still thinking you’re Christian.

Of course, she’s as close to Mr. Rodgers as we’ll probably ever see today. Good on her.

Everything and everyone not living under a rock is political. It's not controversial, it's just facts.

As if helping me raise a toddler that loves to learn wasn’t enough of a reason to stan Ms. Rachel. (and Mr. Aron, of course)

>“It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border.” In a sane and just world, that should never have to be considered to be a "political statement".

This wasn't always a political stance, but modern conservatives have chosen to make it one.

It’s comments like this that make me okay with how obsessed my toddler is with her show.

Ms. Rachel is proudly carrying a torch lit by Fred Rogers: children's programming that wants to build robust, thoughtful, and kind humans. Would Fred be doing the same if he were alive today? Tough to say. He was a Republican, but I can't imagine him being silent about children sleeping in cages or growing up under the threat of the genocidal Israeli regime.

Related: [Lindsay Ellis's video](https://youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4) from a few months ago about Ms. Rachel being politicized for having empathy for children is a great video essay.

Empathy is a Left leaning emotion

If something doesn't happen, this is going to be the next group of Epstein Island children

Good for you Ms Rachel. If Mr. Rogers was alive and doing children's television today, he also would have been labelled "political".

i don't think people who talk about destroying Palestine, Venezuela, Iran, or Cuba can hear how evil they sound. People are too comfortable indiscriminately attacking civilians.

Reminder that the US is one of the few countries in the world not to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

If you can afford to do it, and support her, you should consider streaming her show for the next little bit. An increase in viewers will both reward her financially and reinforce that she is doing the right thing.

One side says kids shouldn't be stuck in prison and fed worm-ridden food, and the other says they're radicalized by basic decency.

Yeah we've reached the point of our history that not wanting children born in this country in concentration camps is political folks.