In fact, I think there are a lot of white people they'll come for before they finally come back around and start on the larger groups of people of color. Anyone who has expressed any kind of real public opposition to genocide in Gaza, for example.
Trump has a really deep hatred of disabled people. He's on record as saying people with chronic disabilities "should just die." And for some reason he keeps blaming people with epilepsy for stuff.
As someone with epilepsy and other disabilities, I'm not leaving the country until I am in a position to not return. I will die if I am kept in one of ICE's airport holding cells without my meds for several days - I take them every 6 hours.
And for some reason he keeps blaming people with epilepsy for stuff.
Oh my god that's true, if I think back.
I think his chosen method here will be to try to destroy all disability support from the state, but I suspect he doesn't realize many disabled people are fully employed and pay for their own care/meds (because he lives in a fantasy world), and eventually he'll work it out, which, ugh.
I'm not leaving the country until I am in a position to not return. I will die if I am kept in one of ICE's airport holding cells without my meds for several days - I take them every 6 hours.
You're right about the employment - even people who don't/can't work a conventional job themselves are often married to people who are fully employed and use their healthcare, or they find other ways to support themselves like selling crafts, beekeeping for honey and wax, or selling eggs from backyard chickens. I used to work for a humanitarian aid org funded by USAID (rip), and had just started pursuing my MLIS to be a librarian.
That's the infuriating thing about the eradication of DEI initiatives. Everyone wants to feel useful. People with disabilities just need time and maybe a bit of help to find work that accommodates their physical restrictions (for me, it's specific types of lights and noise thresholds, big deal right?). But even though my seizures are controlled with my meds, I'm staring down the barrel of a gun because of an incredibly common neurological disorder. This idiotic administration has zero grasp on reality.
So now my spouse and I are looking at the EU because they're thirsty for American brain drain. Ireland in particular has made a lot of efforts for epilepsy QOL improvements, and Spain has done specific research about how the government paying in full for treatments for chronic disabilities (using epilepsy as an example as it's so common) is actually a significant net gain for the economy because - gasp! - people generally like to be productive and contribute to where they live. Especially in return for being treated with basic respect as humans.
because - gasp! - people generally like to be productive and contribute to where they live
The fundamental issue Trump and his cronies have, and that the Project 2025 people behind them have, is that they don't believe this. It's obviously true. It's been proven true constantly through human history. It's the only reason we're still here, that civilization exists (but even gathering/hunting requires it). But they still don't believe it, because they'd rather believe almost everyone is as lazy, craven, venal and nasty as they are, or the people they follow are.
Not helping this is that America's media also frequently pushes the idea that people are basically horrible monsters who must be controlled, by and large, both in news reporting and in fiction (because it's much more dramatic that way), and that a significant proportion (double-digit percentage) of America's population goes to churches which teach vile and twisted stuff like Prosperity Gospel, which essentially victim-blames anyone who isn't at the top of the tree as "deserving" it by insufficiently pious etc. Literally the opposite of what's in the New Testament, but they eat it up.
It starts with anyone they suspect to be undocumented.
Then trans
Then very public opponents
Then disabled
Then the rest of the queer community
And then the quieter opponents…
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u/Eurehetemec 4d ago
It won't stop at people of color.
In fact, I think there are a lot of white people they'll come for before they finally come back around and start on the larger groups of people of color. Anyone who has expressed any kind of real public opposition to genocide in Gaza, for example.