#xenophobia /

[theroundbartable]

THIS!!!!

Illegal immigrations doesn't mean 'these people here come in under false pretences'

It means 'we decided to make people's existence against the law.'

There is no legal or illegal way to come into a country. There are only ways to come into a country and these bans won't stop people from coming. There are only people who are being permitted and people who aren't, based on ideas that are deeply ideological.

These laws are made by racists.

It IS that simple!!!!

[martianmeerkat]

Strength does not invalidate victimhood.

Ive seen a lot of discourse, mainly in fandoms and character interpretations, but I've noticed how much that discourse effects people in their actual lives as well and how people treat each other based on that. So I feel the need to specifcally address this.

Whether you are currently a victim or have been a victim in the past, it does not mean you are incapable of being strong.

Just because you are strong does not make you incapable of being or having been a victim.

Strength and victimhood are not mutually exclusive, and moments of weakness can and will happen to anyone and everyone regardless of their strength. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or what have you. Strength is not what protects you from being a victim, it is what empowers you to keep going in spite of being a victim.

A victim of what? Well, that's open to interpretation. What am I specifically referencing with this? Nothing in particular other than distress at seeing people harm each other even when they agree with each other.

This is not exclusive to any one kind of person, this is not specifc to any race, gender, assigned sex at birth, age, religion, sexual orientation, intellectual level, disability, economic status, or any other kind of determining factor where people have been targeted and treated as other or lesser.

Your strength does not invalidate your moments of weakness. Nor do your moments of weakness invalidate your strength.

[newsfromstolenland]

on the conversation about québec racism/xenophobia/islamophobia...

my dad is a brown Muslim immigrant and my mom is a french-canadian white girl

and good god. some of the towns we stopped in when I was a kid, stores I've been to, random people in québec, my white family members...

my french is fluent. I speak it with my mom. I can vocally pass for living in québec. but none of that matters in the slightest with white people there. they take one look at me, or find out my (arabic) name, and I'm nothing to them. sont pas comme nous.

when I was a kid my mom explained "sont pas comme nous" to me, as a phrase and an attitude, after I asked about the treatment our family was receiving

it's...bad

I don't think they're actually more racist than anglophones, but I think they say and act on the things that white anglos think and/or say behind closed doors

[prokopetz]

It goes without saying that you'll often encounter prejudices that wouldn't fly today when you take in older media, but sometimes you also encounter prejudices which simply have no contemporary analogue. I've been taking in a lot of American media from the 1970s lately, for example, and there seems to be this whole thing about the moral degeneracy of the Swedish going on – and while I know there's probably a fascinating cultural context to that, it never stops feeling vaguely like I'm somehow being pranked.

[gwydionmisha]

US agents raid New Jersey worksite as Trump escalates immigration crackdown

22 Democratic-led states sue over Trump's birthright citizenship order

I legitimately can't figure out how the president can repeal the 14th Amendment of the constitution with a stroke of the pen instead of following the repeal process from the Constitution.

I could have sworn they passed the 21st Amendment to repeal the 18th Amendment, for example.

Apparently a federal judge agrees:

[macmanx]

An exploration of the depth of a father's love, and his attempts to keep his son happy, healthy and safe in a world rife with racism and violence.

This is one of the best and most impactful episodes of the podcast so far.

[jewish-microwave-laser]

hello gringo. you are strapped into an electric chair. next to you is a person who will mention the country argentina. if you mention nazis or nazism in the next 30 minutes, you will be killed. if you resist the temptation, you will survive

good luck

[atheostic]

It's worse.

Even when I explicitly tell people on this hellsite (primarily theist Jews) that I've NEVER been Christian and was raised secular I still get told that I HAVE to be culturally Christian because I'm Latina and I quote "You can't fucking escape Catholicism in Latin America".

And you can escape Christianity in the US?! Or Canada?! Or Russia?! Or any other Christian-majority country?!

And so when I ask if the 1 in 4 American Jews who put up Christmas trees are culturally Christian I get called antisemitic.

My high school buddy who went to Catholic public school (in Canada) like me would never be told that he's culturally Christian, he's culturally Buddhist.

The only difference between us is that he belongs to a religion (an atheistic one at that) and I don't, yet we're treated totally different.

It's as if theists think that if you don't belong to a religion you get assigned the culture of the majority religion because it's impossible to have culture without religion.

And as an Indigenous woman, the imposition of Christianity on me feels extra disgusting. Especially since my tribe in particular has a very long and proud history of resisting Christian missionaries.

Atheists don’t need a reason for why we don’t want to be called “cultural Christians” the fact that we don’t want to be called that is reason enough! When it comes to every other group on this site they are allowed to identify however they want and outsiders don’t get to define them but when it comes to atheists who are ex Christian that rules doesn’t apply for some reason!!! Fuck that!!

Anywhere outside of this site, "cultural Christian" is a *self-identifier* used by people who don't identify as Christian but still feel a connection to the Christian culture they were raised in.

And people try to justify calling individuals "cultural Christians" with "oh, well I don't mean you're ACTUALLY a Christian, I just mean you need to acknowledge that Christianity has influenced your culture and so you need to unpack some of your beliefs!"

Which is true! But it's true of EVERYONE. So if you wouldn't feel comfortable calling an American Jew or Muslim a 'cultural Christian', maybe YOU should unpack why you think atheists are uniquely vulnerable to social influence and therefore subject to being forcibly identified by a religion they've explicitly rejected.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

After the federal government said Thursday it would make significant cuts to its immigration levels, Alberta responded that Ottawa's plan doesn't go far enough. Ottawa announced it will cut the number of new permanent residents from 485,000 projected for this year to 395,000 in 2025, with further cuts down to 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027. It's a significant amendment to its previous plan, released in November, when Canada was expected to admit about 485,000 permanent residents this year and 500,000 in both 2025 and 2026. The new strategy sets out to relieve pressures on the housing market and to stabilize population growth across the country, according to federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @vague-humanoid, @newsfromstolenland

[limononada]

It's slightly disappointing to me how people overlook the discrimination of latin americans. When we brought light to Karla Sofia Gascon's xenophobic behaviour towards mexicans - vile especially as they come from a spaniard woman - everyone called us bitter and transphobic. Now that it affects other oppressed groups, it's suddenly taken seriously. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be, but it shows how overlooked we are to the point someone can be actively causing harm towards latinos yet it is ignored until it affects another group. It's sad. I'm begging for you to start taking us, and the discrimination we face from the world, seriously too. We too are a part of intersectionality,

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[charlesoberonn]

[sayruq]

[newsfromstolenland]

The Toronto ombudsman released a report Thursday finding that the city's decision to limit refugees' access to shelter beds for several months last year was anti-Black racism — but the city manager said he does not agree with the report.

The decision to stop allowing refugees access to non-refugee shelter beds was "poorly thought out, planned for, and communicated," Ombudsman Kwame Addo wrote in the report, which includes 14 recommendations for the city.

But in a letter to Addo dated Nov. 26, City Manager Paul Johnson said he would not take action on the recommendations, subject to city council's decision on the report.

"I do not agree with the findings," Johnson wrote.

Johnson's letter marks "the first time in the history of the Ombudsman's office that the Toronto Public Service has rejected my findings and recommendations in their entirety," Addo wrote in his report.

In November 2022, the city decided to stop allowing refugee claimants access to general shelter system beds, the report says.

Full article

So to be clear, Kwame Addo, the Toronto ombudsman, reported (correctly) that this decision to refuse access to city shelters for homeless refugees disproportionately impacted Black refugees and left many of them out on the street, and is a pretty clear case of anti-Black racism and targeted xenophobia. AND he gave recommendations on how to do better.

And our asshole city manager Paul Johnson (whiteass name) just went "No, I'm not gonna accept that fact".

Which is... just deciding that something isn't true because he doesn't like how it looks and doesn't want to acknowledge systemic anti-Black racism.

I fucking hate this shit man. There is no excuse for refusing shelter to people who need it. Let alone refusing shelter to refugees specifically!! And the fact that this disproportionately impacts Black refugees is just that- a fact. Not an opinion that you can just disagree with.

Discarding this report and its recommendations is cold-hearted and further proof that white canadians continue to be anti-Black.

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[allthegeopolitics]

In Spain, the far-right is calling for the expulsion of Muslims, labeling them on social media as “invaders” by referencing historical events from the fall of Andalusia and the Reconquista, according to an official. Sergio Gracia, president of the Center for Research on the Far-Right (CINVED) in Spain evaluated the far-right’s anti-Muslim rhetoric for Anadolu. Gracia said the far-right uses the concept of “Reconquista,” or reconquest, and related historical events to justify reclaiming Spanish lands from Muslims and expelling them.

Continue Reading.

[gwydionmisha]

"Charged with" means that police can arrest anyone brown and get them deported without due process. Just getting arrested for any reason no matter how bullshit is enough.

The states suing the Feds part is expensive and dangerous.

This is scary police state stuff.

"Even though studies show that recent immigrants in the United States commit crimes at a lower rate than U.S.-born citizens, Riley’s murder became a rallying cry for conservative lawmakers to adopt stricter immigration laws."

It is going to the Senate now.

Please contact your senate critters.

For Democrats, I suggest targeting the racial profiling/due process angle and the sue the Feds if any immigrant does a crime ever angle., but you know your critters better than I do, so if you can tailor to their interests, do.

Anyone have suggestions for Republican critters? Write it up in the reblog so I can publicize it.

Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/