AOC and dehumanization

According to multiple sources, Congresswoman and "Squad" leader (what a ridiculous moniker - maybe call them the spud) asked this question of Acting DHS Secretary McAleenan:

“Do you think that the policy of child separation could have contributed to a dehumanizing culture within CBP that contributes and kind of spills over to other areas of conduct?"

While some of the behavior of the agents noted in recent reports and this exchange was abhorrent, it is not unpredictable.

In that vein, I wonder is she has considered how she would answer a similar question, and one I would love to have seen him ask in return:

"Madame Congresswoman, do you think that your policy of calling our Border Patrol and ICE officers "Nazis" and lying that they were making their charges drink from toilets, might contribute to a deterioration in some of their psychological well-being and conduct?  Do you think that your and other's constant criticism of their selfless work in the overcrowded detention centers that the law you could change requires them to keep immigrants illegally crossing the Southern Border in might cause enormous psychological distress for both them and their charges.  Do you understand that it might contribute not only to issues with officers' conduct, but also to the violence by ANTIFA, such as the attack on a detention facility? What responsibility will you bear for such conduct?"

We might best consider these agents as being on the front line of a war.  Much as happened in our nation during the conflict in Viet Nam (and sadly seems close to happening now), the public devaluation or downright criticism of those on the front lines of those wars by public officials leads to awful consequences.  The ability of warriors - be it these agents or our warriors serving around the world - to do their duty, to serve our nation in incredibly stressful conditions relies on support from the larger society and a belief in the fact that their work, their sacrifice, is meaningful.

AOC and her spuds are the public face of such criticism - and she feigns ignorance and surprise that this causes them outrage. Her self-absorbed immaturity defies belief.  To her it is all a game, all just words to throw around, like "Nazi".  She wonders why those about whom she lies, whom she denigrates and dehumanizes and  refers to as "Nazis" running "Concentration camps" might begin to view her in negative ways? She is a child with no experience to create context for her in relation to the words she throws around so flippantly.

She is dehumanizing them.  She is, in essence, waiting at the airport, so she can spit on warriors returning from VN, call them baby killers.  Officers, warriors, doing the job they are sworn to do in accordance with laws that she could change if she cared, being called enemies of the very state they serve, by a young woman who would not know service, commitment, bravery, sacrifice, or loyalty if it bit here where her brains reside.