• WoodScientist
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    1 month ago

    That works up until the “just noise” comes to find you. I had to flee my home and move a thousand miles away from where I lived. I also couldn’t return to the land I was born in. I became an internally displaced refugee inside the US, in order to flee state persecution. I was born here and have a family history in this country so far back I had an ancestor on the Mayflower. It’s all just noise until it comes for you.

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      1 month ago

      I know people in the US that are part of different minority groups that feel like ICE is just noise. It’s noise until they change which minority groups they are ripping from communities. It’s not anyone’s problem until it’s specifically their problem. Awful country mentality.

      That’s the problem with the fear the outcast rhetoric, eventually you’re the outcast. First it’s lgbt, then it’s immigrants, next it’ll be something more broad.

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        1 month ago

        More often it’s fear the outcast until their favorite Mexican friend gets deported and they say “no you’re not supposed to deport the good ones!!”