🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agoAnon lives in the midwestsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down111
arrow-up11.02Karrow-down1imageAnon lives in the midwestsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squaredubious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down7·1 month agoagreed. technically, both are native.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·1 month agoWell no, the Amish were settlers too. They’re just working with the Indians instead of in spite of the Indians.
minus-squaredubious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down12·1 month agothey were all born there. we need to stop considering ancestors and consider the living.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down3·1 month agoWe can stop when we actually give them the same opportunities and protections white people get. You don’t get to oppress a population for 500 years and then just act like nothing happened.
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·edit-230 days agoWhich laws and policies specifically give preference to people with white skin?
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·29 days agoCivil Asset Forfeiture, fleeing felon rule, subjective reasons for searches, qualified immunity… Pretty much everything that allows for selective enforcement of laws.
minus-squaredubious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down12·30 days agodid the current, living Amish oppress them? did I? did you? who is the “you” in your sentence?
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·29 days agoApparently it’s you, literally.
agreed. technically, both are native.
Well no, the Amish were settlers too. They’re just working with the Indians instead of in spite of the Indians.
they were all born there. we need to stop considering ancestors and consider the living.
We can stop when we actually give them the same opportunities and protections white people get. You don’t get to oppress a population for 500 years and then just act like nothing happened.
Which laws and policies specifically give preference to people with white skin?
Civil Asset Forfeiture, fleeing felon rule, subjective reasons for searches, qualified immunity…
Pretty much everything that allows for selective enforcement of laws.
did the current, living Amish oppress them? did I? did you? who is the “you” in your sentence?
Apparently it’s you, literally.