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Lemmy told me that I'd get kidnapped by ICE the moment a non-white person stepped outside...
I went to a post office in a predominently white neighborhood to apply for a passport (earliest available appointment cuz cities are always filled), the guy working at the post office was a brown guy with an "Indian Accent" (which I did not expect to be working in a white neighbood btw).
I'm ethnically Chinese and did not get harassed by anyone... Lemmy would have you believe there are lynch mobs and white-hooded KKK people trying to shoot you on sight, did not happen...
Also none of my family had been harassed by ICE yet... I heard some relatives and friends of my parent's social circle cross the border just fine... my aunts be going on vacations and cruises... (my parents so jealous of their wealth and keep telling me "why can't you be like them" ๐ญ)
That being said, maybe me being Chinese and not Hispanic/Latino made the risks lower, not trying to invalidate the fears that other more vulnerable communities might face.
every minority gets its own kind of racism. asians were the target during covid, muslims took their turn after 9/11, hispanics are now the focus. and black people are always in between.