ID: photo of a dark road through some woods, in the lower right is text saying “The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.”

  • Anegro_MontoyaEnglish
    373·
    3 days ago

    Stop over reacting, this is your mental health, no one else is having this strong of a reaction, you’re not seeing reality, you’re a black American not an immigrant so you’re safe, other minorities are not afraid, what makes you so special that you think you’re a target?

    I’ve spent the last week being told these things and more by people who have admitted they’re unafraid because they’re white. These same people that I thought had my back and said they understood for the last 20 years. I’m literally questioning if I should prepare for the worst without my family or check myself into a mental hospital because everyone around me is telling me to wait and see what the white nationalists do. There is no imminent threat to myself.

    This whole scenario is solidifying my belief that we’re just alone in the world and if you’re dark skinned no one is going to protect you here. My white family members and friends are calling me one of the good ones every fucking day but think because of different wording it doesn’t mean the same goddamn thing. I’m so fucking pissed and disaappinted. I’m waiting to die or get arrested while everyone else is going to Starbucks and talking about future vacation plans.

    F U C K T H I S.

    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      I’m white, but also trans. Currently preparing to move across country to a state where I hope to maintain some rights.

      I’m privileged enough to be able to do that, but I also am aware that my job may be at risk with everything going on. This last week has me anxious enough that my ADHD medication is barely doing anything to help me focus on most tasks.

      It’s the same shit MLK said about the white moderate. Anyone fine and comfy is perfectly OK with other people being denied rights because doing something to fix it means upsetting the status quo and stuff might end up a bit harder for them.

      Meanwhile, so many people getting deported means we are about to enter in a massive food shortage and price hike that will effect them. But they will rationalize like they always do that this wasn’t something they could have forseen desire the rest of us telling them exactly what was going to happen.

      For fuck sake, there were people like that who basically claimed we were crazy for quoting the shit trump said he was going to do. Saying it was hyperbole. Like Trump even knows what that is.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      I’m Jewish. I’ve told my family for years, especially the young ones, “we’re always second. When they get through the people that don’t look like them, they’ll come for us, who look like them but somehow aren’t”

      They still look at me like I’m crazy… For now. I hope they continue to

      • GFGJewbacca@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Not only am I Jewish too, I’m clergy. I’m very publicly Jewish. My wife thought I was nuts for some time when I told her we have to have an exit plan, but then realized we need it to be safe. I’m more worried about members of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community than I am about us, but I know that the Nazis will come for us too.

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      That’s truly awful, I’m sorry you’re having to find out who your friends and even family really are, and mostly, that they’re getting you to doubt yourself so deeply.

      Trust your gut. These people are telling you who they are, listen. Don’t put your life in their hands.

      I know it sounds impossible, or at least very difficult, but try and find or create a community of people who don’t do that shit to you, who share your fears, or at the very least don’t prioritise their own feelings and dismiss yours because they personally don’t experience that kind of oppression and can see how absolutely terrifying the world is for marginalised people right now, and who are willing and ready to act in defence of one another and marginalised people at large.

      You are not alone, and your fears are valid and well founded

      There are many others like you out there, but they’re probably just as scared as you are to reach out because they’re getting the same shit from the privileged people in their lives, and are also doubting themselves and thinking they’re alone too.

      This is the time to find our people, support each other, build community, and resist. It is our only option.

      Solidarity from the UK, stay safe friend.

    • eestileibEnglish
      132·
      3 days ago

      Hey sibling.

      I’m a trans person and I feel every word of this.