many people have been saying since the beginning he is going to come after citizens. First he came for undocumented, then for green card holders, and now for actual citizens. This doesn’t end with just that.
The use of plastic straws by disabled people became a moral detriment suitable for public shaming before lack of accessibility became a moral detriment suitable for public shaming.
My disabled YouTuber friend now gets harassed when she uses a plastic bending straw (an accessibility tool, something she NEEDS in order to drink, no alternative currently works) in her videos.
Reminder right here: no matter how someone looks, their disability will not always be apparent to you.
But when my disabled friend is denied emergency evacuation plans out of a building because the elevators get shut off and she uses a wheelchair, does the building owner get shamed or harassed? No.
Those are the power dynamics at play here.
Imagine if ableds cared about accessibility as much as they care about banning plastic straws.
“Imagine if ableds cared about accessibility as much as they care about banning plastic straws.”
Think an issue with it is that everyone sees racism as purely skin colour. Racism is abhorrent in all forms, but people tend to jump into ‘whataboutery’ when different types of racism is mentioned whether that’s skin colour, or nationality.
We should be able to have a discussion about anti-Irish racism, without having pull all the other types in some form of comparison. It can be sensibly framed in the conversation but ‘this racism overrules that racism’ is a stupid mindset.
I also think, and correct me if I’m wrong on this, quite a lot of the ‘this is anti-white racism’ crew automatically jump on anti-Irish racism as if it’s some form of shield they can use to prevent them from addressing issues with other types of racism.
I’m not American so don’t know for sure, but I know in EU law there’s specific ruling on discrimination against nationalities etc.
@bubblepunk99s Just so we’re clear, under the Equality Act 2010 defines Race Discrimination as being treated unfairly because of one of the following:
Colour
Nationality
Ethnic Origin
National Origin
Nationality is based on citizenship or membership of a particular nation.
National Origins are a connection to a country or nation through birth. An example of this would be a citizen from Japan, moving to Ireland, and acquiring Irish citizenship. Their nationality would be Irish but their national origins are Japanese.
Ethnic Origin is if you are part of an ethnic group, which the law defines as a people who share the same history and cultural traditions. These could be the same language, religion, literature, geographical origin, being an oppressed group, and being a minority.
For clarification the courts have said Irish Travellers, Jews, Romany Gypsies, and Sikhs are all ethnic groups.
The law goes on to state that people can be part of several racial groups. If you are a British citizen with Jamaican parents, it is possible you could be discriminated against because of your nationality, your Jamaican national origins or the colour of your skin.
Hope that clarifies things. I understand that other parts of the world would see some aspects as xenophobic and other parts as racist.
In Europe, xenoracism (which “others” all immigrants, but definitely takes on racial dimensions for people who cannot pass as the local dominant ethnic majority) and ethno-nationalism (which elevates things like a specifically “Slavic” identity and “look” in Russia, “Englishness” and Anglo features in England, etc.), creates a completely different landscape for race and conceptions of “partial” and “full” whiteness.
Xenoracism is totally a thing, also speaking from personal experience. These social constructions have not worked exactly the same everywhere and everywhen.
I peddle video games. Two days ago, I had a guy call me and demand to know why he didn’t get a download code when his MOM paid for it earlier in the day. He wouldn’t take “we have an agreement between our company and the developers and I can’t give the code to you yet” as an answer, and called me repeatedly to demand a different answer, to whine about how unfair it is that his friends (who bought it from the developer directly) got it already, and threaten to call corporate on me.
The incident I encountered is small fries compared to this shooting, but it’s all stemming from the same. Fucking. Bullshit. Entitled MEN who don’t know how to fucking chill, who don’t know how to man up and deal with disappointment about anything in life (not being able to get their video game on time, not winning at a game, being turned down by a girl) and who resort to violence when they’re not satisfied. It’s sick and it needs to change.
The Black Footed cat is the smallest wild cat in Africa and one of the smallest wild cats in the world.
Here’s an adult kitty for size comparison:
too smoll
OK but you can’t mention my all-time favorite cat without also mentioning that these little motherfuckers are legendary for being 1000% ready to throw down with anyone at any time, they’ve literally been seen trying to fight a giraffe and are known to successfully bring down sheep by getting underneath them and ripping their bellies open like what the fuck, chill
Their name in Afrikaans means “anthill tiger” because they’ll hide inside a hollowed out anthill and then jump out and try to rip your face off
The next phase in the Trump administration’s effort to reduce
immigration is to strip Americans who were simply born and raised near
the border with Mexico of their citizenship by claiming their birth
certificates and other birth documents are fraudulent. In June, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is part of the Department of
Homeland Security, began an Orwellian-sounding process of “denaturalization”
of American citizens that the U.S. government believed obtained
citizenship through identity theft and fraud. Over the last nearly 30
years, revoking an American of citizenship has been exceedingly rare,
occurring in only several hundred instances. That appears set to change
and a Washington Post report
Wednesday found the government’s program of invalidating what appears
to be almost exclusively Hispanic Americans’ citizenship, by revoking
passports of Americans born along the southern border, is not a limited
piecemeal effort. It’s an active, if discreet American policy that’s
being carried out against card-carrying citizens.
What’s happening? The Post recounted the story of Juan, a
40-year-old American, who was born in the border town of Brownsville,
Texas. Juan, has served as a private in the U.S. Army, later worked for
the Border Patrol, and is now a state prison guard. This year, when he
tried to renew his passport, the State Department denied the request,
saying, despite his American birth certificate, it didn’t believe he was
an American citizen. It’s not clear from the Post’s reporting exactly
how widespread this practice is, but those on the ground say it’s most
certainly a growing phenomenon. Interviews with immigration attorneys
“suggest a dramatic shift in both passport issuance and immigration
enforcement,” according to the Post.
Trump made his political career by insisting that the President—the first black president—had a fake birth certificate. This development is horrifying but not truly surprising.
It’s been his message all along – if you aren’t a very specific sort of person, you aren’t “really American”, aren’t really a person, and don’t count.
Granted, whether the human is carrying a gun would likely be way more crucial information to convey than their size/shape, if you’re talking to other prairie dogs. The “even” sounds a tad off there.
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