This is literally my parents. They told me to stop criticizing the people in power, even going as far as saying I shouldn’t criticize the government of my former country. I don’t even have citizenship in my former country anymore, not sure how I could even get in trouble for criticizing is effecively a foreign country to me. (I’m talking about PRC btw).
My mom told me to “just focus on improving your own life and stop worrying about things like you can’t control like politics” (as in, both the politics of my former country and the politics of my current country)
Am I in the wrong here? Should I just keep quiet and not say anything so that I don’t “get in trouble”?
As a white cis-man with many friends who are vulnerable minorities, this is a serious concern for me. I don’t use social media, all my political criticisms are here or some other anonymous format (“anonymous” is relative, but at least there’s nothing subversive directly connected to my name). I could engage in overt civil disobedience, but if I keep my head down and blend in I have the means to shelter people if things really start escalating.
With ICE targeting protests, it makes sense.