• shish_mish@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Depends. Are you a rich, white, straight male? You will be fine and can ignore everything. But if you are any shade of brown, an immigrant or belong to any minority group or are female or have loved ones belonging to anyone of these groups, then you should pay attention as they might genuinely be in danger.

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      28 days ago

      I keep hearing this “if you’re a straight, white male, you’ll be fine.” I’m a straight “white passing” male (half Cuban, with no Latin origin names).

      When people say this, I ask, “what about my friends? What about my family? What about the people I love?” Does that not affect me? Are we supposed to ignore their plight?

      I don’t see what we can do to combat Trump short of organizing and fighting back. We all know how good the left are at that.

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        28 days ago

        I don’t see what we can do to combat Trump short of organizing and fighting back. We all know how good the left are at that.

        How do you think we got anything good at all, ever?

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          28 days ago

          The left lost its way. BLM and Floyd protests were the closest we’ve gotten to the anger the left displayed for the Vietnam war.