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esqueism · 3 months ago

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i’m seeing a lot of people use the point of death and people always needing to die in unrest and revolution to say “well brown people are dying at the border anyways” and this is true but a lot of political violence and unrest is happening in countries marginally more homogeneous than the U.S., in which, in the case that a protest becomes a place where people die, black and brown people will disproportionately be killed. i saw a tag say “god forbid a red blooded american dies instead of a brown person at the border” and like… a brown person dies in both cases. a “based” white woman will not be martyred here. the original post is very correct and it is also very true that people protest and die from it in the global south and sometimes they see change but i don’t think it’s reasonable to ask americans to sacrifice people of color yet again. we will keep protesting but it really bothers me to see people from other countries act as if there isn’t a major racial aspect to protests in america and who has the potential to survive them in case they go south

“We won’t be able to organize/ protest under Trump”.

People in the Global South have been organizing and protesting under dictatorships that America has installed as puppets for decades. You will be fine.

#we will keep protesting but be serious when you’re talking about who dies and who lives #obviously it is the most vulnerable people that get harmed first in the global south and everywhere else and that’s the root of protests #but i wanted to point out that specific point and tag i saw because what you call a red blooded american will NOT be dying #seeing a lot of people call us dumb americans or make jokes about the american south’s education as if education here isn’t actively suppr #essed #it is ok for marginalized communities here to feel worry and fear because they are already facing violence #just because not everyone is facing violence in the u.s. doesn’t mean some groups aren’t i see a lot of yall acting as if we are all not at #all oppressed bc we are thankfully not under a dictatorship #and of course it is not as bad here as it is in many many places #but why are yall virtue signaling so hard over this like why do you want to feel moral over americans so badly

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