There are still countless international travelers going in and out of the country every day, which boggles my mind how people broadly ignore this fact. Not saying ICE isn’t doing horrific things, but it would be ludicrous if we superimposed their deportation efforts in neighborhoods with the thousands of people flying in and out for business and visiting families and the like, it would be far more absurd how we’re seeing wars being fought in select neighborhoods in select cities.
It reminds me of how FOX declared that Portland Oregon had “burnt down” entirely during BLM and there are now still people who believe entire cities can burn to the ground in the US by an evil cabal of saboteurs and have it barely make the news for more than a day.
Or how Americans broadly think something like one in five people identify as trans.
Or how people think you can actually build a wall across thousands of miles of desert.
We have a massive, massive problem with people not understanding the scale of our world and it’s allowing the worst people to shape all of our narratives and outlooks on life.
My brain has trouble comprehending how big the world population is. For instance, I have trouble wrapping my head around how there are enough people to fill all the professional sports teams
I can’t speak for the person you’re responding to, but I can say that if I was out of the country I would not go to the US for most reasons people travel. I have family in red states, and I have just decided not to visit them or go to family events there. They don’t even agree with the state government, but moved there because it was fiscally convenient, they were not personally affected by the laws, and they don’t mind being surrounded by people that agree with those policies. At a certain point we all have to make our own choices, and I would rather not spend money in a red state. If people come for life saving treatment, or they would lose their income otherwise, I can see how they would make that decision, but I seriously question anyone coming for things not related to life and limb.
People should boycott the US whenever possible at this point. We were always bad, but we’re out and out fascist at this point. I wouldn’t visit Germany during the rise of Hitler, so I don’t know why I’d make excuses for the US. I don’t think it’s about thinking you personally will get deported, it’s about solidarity and geopolitics.
I don’t disagree with anything you said, I am just saying that we need to look at a much larger reality so we understand exactly what the actual fight is about. The travel statistics in and out of the US is insane, even with all this going on, the world moves on and people are still doing what they need to do in mass numbers.
This whole immigration fight is strictly performative, and you can boycott visiting the US or any states you want, but it’s never been about actual travel in and out of the US, it’s about people who aren’t white being made to feel unwelcome so that the races in America are pitted against each other so we don’t unite against the actual enemy. (This is also why it’s utter bullshit that we have so much “anti ICE” protest being staged but aren’t seeing as broad of a message against the people who fund and empower them)
This is a staged fight so everyone picks a fight with the set-up villain of the story and ignores the storytellers.
There are still countless international travelers going in and out of the country every day, which boggles my mind how people broadly ignore this fact. Not saying ICE isn’t doing horrific things, but it would be ludicrous if we superimposed their deportation efforts in neighborhoods with the thousands of people flying in and out for business and visiting families and the like, it would be far more absurd how we’re seeing wars being fought in select neighborhoods in select cities.
It reminds me of how FOX declared that Portland Oregon had “burnt down” entirely during BLM and there are now still people who believe entire cities can burn to the ground in the US by an evil cabal of saboteurs and have it barely make the news for more than a day.
Or how Americans broadly think something like one in five people identify as trans.
Or how people think you can actually build a wall across thousands of miles of desert.
We have a massive, massive problem with people not understanding the scale of our world and it’s allowing the worst people to shape all of our narratives and outlooks on life.
My brain has trouble comprehending how big the world population is. For instance, I have trouble wrapping my head around how there are enough people to fill all the professional sports teams
I can’t speak for the person you’re responding to, but I can say that if I was out of the country I would not go to the US for most reasons people travel. I have family in red states, and I have just decided not to visit them or go to family events there. They don’t even agree with the state government, but moved there because it was fiscally convenient, they were not personally affected by the laws, and they don’t mind being surrounded by people that agree with those policies. At a certain point we all have to make our own choices, and I would rather not spend money in a red state. If people come for life saving treatment, or they would lose their income otherwise, I can see how they would make that decision, but I seriously question anyone coming for things not related to life and limb.
People should boycott the US whenever possible at this point. We were always bad, but we’re out and out fascist at this point. I wouldn’t visit Germany during the rise of Hitler, so I don’t know why I’d make excuses for the US. I don’t think it’s about thinking you personally will get deported, it’s about solidarity and geopolitics.
I don’t disagree with anything you said, I am just saying that we need to look at a much larger reality so we understand exactly what the actual fight is about. The travel statistics in and out of the US is insane, even with all this going on, the world moves on and people are still doing what they need to do in mass numbers.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/travel
This whole immigration fight is strictly performative, and you can boycott visiting the US or any states you want, but it’s never been about actual travel in and out of the US, it’s about people who aren’t white being made to feel unwelcome so that the races in America are pitted against each other so we don’t unite against the actual enemy. (This is also why it’s utter bullshit that we have so much “anti ICE” protest being staged but aren’t seeing as broad of a message against the people who fund and empower them)
This is a staged fight so everyone picks a fight with the set-up villain of the story and ignores the storytellers.