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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does showing your face add though? Trump insisting that Columbia ban students from wearing masks during protests says all you need to know. Why do exactly what he wants? Seems low/no reward for a lot of risk. [/quote]

Risk of what, exactly? Do people think that Trump will be able to round up tens of millions of people who protested and, what... deport all these legal American citizens or throw them in prison? And the rest of the country will not rise up? [/quote]

I’m a Black woman.  Please reassure me — if you can — that if I’m one of the people that gets arrested, the rest of the country will “rise up”.  Let’s start with you, PP.  Are you and your friends going to notice that I’ve been arrested?  Once you notice, will you come and find me from wherever I’ve been taken?  I’m pretty sure that for all of my degrees and “upper middle class” interests, I’ll be left to rot.  I’d like to think that I’m wrong though.  Well?

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I'm Asian American, naturalized citizen, and I agree with you.  DH is also a naturalized citizen, white.   We are both scared that any outward protest may result in a roundup, or at the least, harassment.  We have kids.  Truly scary times.

I've been a citizen for over 40 years and used to vote R.[/quote]

You are playing into the fear. If millions like you stood up, the rest of the country would know that we won’t allow such things (round up, etc) to happen. Why are we not rising up about wrongful deportations? Nobody remembers the “First they came for… and I said nothing” story?[/quote]

Yes, we remember it. We also have many experiences with POC being punished for the same things that get overlooked in others. Trump and his white Christian Nationalists aren’t “playing”.  It’s funny, PP, how you shift from “millions like YOU” when it comes to taking the risks to what “WE won’t allow”.  Those for whom the risks are less certain need to be on the front lines for this one.  We remember that bit. It’s often repeated by people who have no intention of risking their own well-being. [/quote]

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