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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I've been a naturalized citizen of the US for 99% of my life.

I am fully expecting that within the next year or so I'll lose my naturalization. Not because of a criminal record (I have none), but because I'm not white enough.

I am currently looking at applying for a work visa in Canada with longer term plans to move to the EU. Frankly, any and all "plan b" ideas I'm looking into.

Sucks because I have to uproot my family, too. They are white. I still don't know if they fully comprehend what it is like day to day.

Like, I was just going grocery shopping the other day and had an unmarked van behind me for what felt like an awkwardly long time. I immediately started formulating escape plans. I drove an extra long route to the store just to make sure I wasn't being followed. Once I parked I sat in my car an extra few minutes to observe if any other suspicious vehicles also parked and if anybody got out. I made sure to message my wife that I parked, that I was on my way into the store, that I was 25%/50%/75% done getting items, that I was checking out, that I was back in the car and headed home.

These are not thoughts I should have to have. It sucks.

I'm also armed, but let's be honest, I can probably only take 1-2 gestapo out before I'm done for and there'd be no getting away with it long-term.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Every day my wife goes to work, I worry about her workplace being raided and my never seeing or hearing from her again.

I also worry that I might drive in the middle of it, and have to get involved. I should not have to have plans about how to rescue my wife from kidnapping at work.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

Like, I was just going grocery shopping the other day and had an unmarked van behind me for what felt like an awkwardly long time. I immediately started formulating escape plans. I drove an extra long route to the store just to make sure I wasn’t being followed. Once I parked I sat in my car an extra few minutes to observe if any other suspicious vehicles also parked and if anybody got out. I made sure to message my wife that I parked, that I was on my way into the store, that I was 25%/50%/75% done getting items, that I was checking out, that I was back in the car and headed home.

These are not thoughts I should have to have. It sucks.

jesus fucking christ. i am sorry this is happening to you or anyone else.

[–] Todd@piefed.social 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They should be. It's a very dangerous time. The ones running the country are above the law and want to get rid of anyone who isn't a white Christian male.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No I think they want to keep the under-age girls too.

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No teen girls will end up in Alligator Auschwitz…..

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah they will, don't kid yourself, the prison guards will get bored.

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 days ago

They won’t make it there because they will be placed in another facility…. For sex.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Poignant. I'm a naturalized citizen myself and I'm worried in a way I never was before. I don't want to end up in South Sudan. So far, I have been expressing myself as if there were no danger, at least because I think that if they ever come for me, they can find plenty of what they object to in what I've written years ago. My father tells me that I'm a fool and I mourn that we live in an America where he's probably right. It turns out that they really do hate our freedom. Just not the "they" I expected.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's scary watching an empire collapse in real time.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

With most of us on the lower floors with no chance to fix it or escape