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Drawing by a 5 year old girl at the ICE Children’s Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX. This child turned 5 in detention & has spent almost 20% of her life jailed along with 4 of her siblings (lemmy.ml)

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[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

My point wasn't about how similar or different racism is there, but that it's a reality, I've seen underreported news about Roma and Syrian tents being set on fire by racists with no accountability, and South Asians being murdered by Neonazis in Britain in particular, and I don't even consume news from Europe that much. It's not that you have full fledged concentration camps, but that so many of your governments either ignore or encourage racism and other reactionary attitudes so they can scapegoat random minorities instead of attempting to combat economic injustice.

I believe the system is already bad when Roma and other marginalized people suffer, but I also believe it won't get better without attempting to improve it, and without communist countries next door to force your elites into expanding welfare I'm not sure you'll get what you deserve and need.