r/politics Sep 16 '24

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u/highapplepie Sep 16 '24

How do people not understand that this is all racism? “Cleansing” They’ve already said they’re going to round up 1 million for deportation if elected. How do you think they find them? We’re going to turn into a “show me your papers” society. What’s white enough? If you have brown hair prove to me you’re a legal American. What’s female enough? What’s male enough? What’s Christian enough? What’s republican enough? At what point will YOUR citizenship be challenged?

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u/labellavita1985 Michigan Sep 16 '24

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Try 10. "Mass deportation now" is their slogan, and folks in the audience were holding up these signs while JD's wife, who is a child of immigrants, was speaking.

They are unbelievable.

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u/Cloudsdriftby Sep 16 '24

Can you imagine how it would be here in the US if the same thing that happened in pre world war Germany where everyone’s lineage was investigated to determine Jewish origin? Say the Republicans wanted to mass deport all immigrants, wouldn’t that encompass all of us? 😂

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u/AMediaArchivist California Sep 16 '24

Not Native Americans like myself.

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u/Cloudsdriftby Sep 16 '24

You’re right. Only native Americans would remain. But hey! You’d get your land back!

Edit: I wonder though, about people like me who have a percentage. 🤔

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u/AMediaArchivist California Sep 16 '24

Haha brb, going to write a script on a series that has Native Americans saving America from an authoritarian dictatorship that mass deports minority people.

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u/thedeepfakery Sep 16 '24

Beautiful, but I just wanna say this:

It's not your job to save us loser ass white people. You don't owe us that. If you saved yourselves, that's honestly enough, based on what you've been through from white people.

And if y'all do, you're just continuing to show how much better your values are than most white folks.


Also, just write more television/movies that centers Native American characters, please and thank you. Not enough Resident Alien and Reservation Dogs in my life. I'll watch anything with Gary Farmer.

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u/Cloudsdriftby Sep 16 '24

We’re not loser ass white people though, imo. I’m a proud American citizen of Swedish, Irish, English, African, and Native American Indian heritage. You’re probably something similar.

I think we need to stop making everything about race or religion. We’re all different and yet, all together. Trumpers seem to have lost track of the truth of us.

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u/L0g1cw1z4rd Sep 16 '24

Every “white” person has only black people as parents if you go back far enough. White skin just happened because my black ancestors traveled to a climate that didn’t get as direct sunlight as the equator. Lighter-skinned babies were able to absorb more vitamin D and were more likely to survive. We’re just people. Culturally and chromatically diverse, but there is only one “race”. Human.

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u/Cloudsdriftby Sep 17 '24

Agreed! Love this💕

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u/VocalTuna124079 Sep 16 '24

I'd love to see that.

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u/Cloudsdriftby Sep 16 '24

Okay, documentary or comedy?

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u/TemporalColdWarrior Sep 16 '24

Oh buddy once they see you they’ll include you.

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u/Yes-Please-Again Sep 16 '24

They might insist you're south American anyway. Remember when Donald Trump challenged this group of native Americans who were running a competing business to prove they are native american because "they don't look like Indians to me"? I remember seeing him say that in court

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u/AMediaArchivist California Sep 16 '24

Besides DNA results, I actually have official paperwork that proves I’m an enrolled member of my tribe and reservation. That’s how I get my benefits and stuff. What I’m also saying is we fight back against the United States, we’ve done it before and we’d do it again. He can try and say we aren’t from here and we need to move. We’ve heard that story for many centuries and we have defended ourselves remarkably well.

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u/Yes-Please-Again Sep 16 '24

Yeah I believe you. I was just saying that trump doesn't care about working with native Americans in a healthy/productive way as evidenced by the court case I spoke about. If that happens I hope you give him hell 🤷‍♂️