🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 days agoAnon lives in the midwestsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up1971arrow-down111
arrow-up1960arrow-down1imageAnon lives in the midwestsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 days agomessage-square108fedilink
minus-squaredubious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down4·20 hours agoagreed. technically, both are native.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·20 hours agoWell no, the Amish were settlers too. They’re just working with the Indians instead of in spite of the Indians.
minus-squaredubious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down8·20 hours agothey were all born there. we need to stop considering ancestors and consider the living.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down3·17 hours agoWe can stop when we actually give them the same opportunities and protections white people get. You don’t get to oppress a population for 500 years and then just act like nothing happened.
minus-squaredubious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down6·6 hours agodid the current, living Amish oppress them? did I? did you? who is the “you” in your sentence?
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·edit-26 hours agoWhich laws and policies specifically give preference to people with white skin?
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 minutes agoCivil Asset Forfeiture, fleeing felon rule, subjective reasons for searches, qualified immunity… Pretty much everything that allows for selective enforcement of laws.
agreed. technically, both are native.
Well no, the Amish were settlers too. They’re just working with the Indians instead of in spite of the Indians.
they were all born there. we need to stop considering ancestors and consider the living.
We can stop when we actually give them the same opportunities and protections white people get. You don’t get to oppress a population for 500 years and then just act like nothing happened.
did the current, living Amish oppress them? did I? did you? who is the “you” in your sentence?
Apparently it’s you, literally.
Which laws and policies specifically give preference to people with white skin?
Civil Asset Forfeiture, fleeing felon rule, subjective reasons for searches, qualified immunity…
Pretty much everything that allows for selective enforcement of laws.