A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States.
What I found so exhausting was a whole lot of self-righteous people online that seemed to be doing everything possible to push away lots of groups, wholesale, especially during the Biden years. Playing these intersectionality politics and Oppression Olympics and demanding white men take a back seat. That people should all be made to read rather fringe texts and until they did, they should be marginalized and ignored. And that was what they were saying about allies.
People like me would get shouted down/banhammered if we piped up and said that’s no way to win elections and they are just doing things designed to create more Republicans. The message seemed to be that unless the movement was made up of perfectly ideological people with the right checkboxes, and unless the Democrats offered them the perfectly crafted messaging on certain key issues, then it was if Americans deserved whatever the worst thing Republicans could dream up.
It was just so crazy. I’m still baffled by it. Most of these types seem to have disappeared. I’m sure many might have been bots/paid trolls, but the ones that weren’t? What the actual fuck. Also, I still know a few of these IRL and I can barely even look at them now.
Guess all of us will get plenty of time to “check our privilege” under this stupid administration.