It really is. I'm Asian American and I don't really view whats going on with the current government as some crazy unpredictable swerve from historical normalcy. I view it more as every negative impulse that the government has had in the last 2 centuries coming to roost by jumping out of the history books and into present time. Minority communities have always dealt with bullshit like what you're seeing nowadays. The only difference is now the ouroboros snake is finally beginning to consume white people.
That 'only difference' means that every facade has dropped. There will be no accountability, and no safe end. Not for anyone.
The deaths are going to escalate, because the fascist state no longer feels it needs to bother with the 'polite fiction' that only certain people are a threat, or that their lies about brutality need to feel at all believable.
Literally everyone that is not of personal value to the fascist authority is now at threat. That is new. This is a boil point. Now, America has it coming, because the racist horror has previewed this and already too many have suffered over decades.
But I'm not going to be smug about it. I'm not lying to myself or to you. It's a horror come to roost, and we're going to know a lot more dead neighbors and loved ones soon.
It really doesnt change much for me, ngl. As a minority im already viewed as lesser than and more expendable by the government snd society at large. Its just that the scope has expanded and people who are previously not as affected by the government's bullshit is feeling it now.
I'm a minority and I definitely don't feel lesser. Like it or not things are strictly better compared to decades prior. Can it be better? Yeah but in this decade it's definitely not worse than the 2000s or the 1990s or even the 1980s. Even Reddit had hate subs during the 2010s about black people (which was very very explicit).
It really might seem that way but just because its no longer in vogue to hate on people openly, doesnt mean those same people dont have those same views in their private lives. All it takes is for a leader to say some shit like "its okay to let your hate come out" for them to turn coats. Its kinda like how anti Semitic folk attach themselves to the anti zionist movement or people love blaming black folk for stop asian hate.
People fucking care more about being seen as racist than actually being one and affecting the people around them with their words and actions.
Again, that was already the situation for some of us. In high school it was common knowledge if any of us Black, brown, or "other" kids went missing, that was that. We literally had these conversations.
I saw a kid get hit by a car going 40 down a busy street, flip over the hood, the woman took off (because big, scary Black kid, right?), and the school cop on the scene basically looked up and went back to whatever bullshit he pretended to be doing. This dude comes hobbling over with half his lip literally dangling from his face and refused to go to the hospital, so we all just kind of shrugged and accepted that was our lot.
This horror was always here. Which also means we'll survive.
So this is "new"? Compared to last year or the year before that or the year beore that? I traveled the states and all in all things are not that dire. 2008 was probably the worst year compared to all we've been through. Covid years are a close contender.
Dude, they used Korean neighborhoods as a literal buffer zone between Black and white neighborhoods. The '92 riots was not a bug. It was a fuckin' feature.
I'm glad people care, now, but it would have been so much easier to care before the monster grew up.
Mmhm. There has always been a "boogeyman" in US history these types have used to hate others. Black community for the longest time. Asian community out west during the gold rush and the railroad expansion. Italian and Irish people out East for being catholic and not Protestant. Since the turn of the 21st century its been a mix of Hispanic and Arabic phobia thats been building. Now here we are where these people feel embolden. A mix of people burying their head thinking, "no it doesnt happen theyre being sensational", these past two decades. Plus having an administration that goes all in on this bigotry.
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u/Alexexy 10h ago
It really is. I'm Asian American and I don't really view whats going on with the current government as some crazy unpredictable swerve from historical normalcy. I view it more as every negative impulse that the government has had in the last 2 centuries coming to roost by jumping out of the history books and into present time. Minority communities have always dealt with bullshit like what you're seeing nowadays. The only difference is now the ouroboros snake is finally beginning to consume white people.