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[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 123 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The whole thing is so horrifying, but this stuck out to me

Rosa, a Mexican woman who spoke barely any English and had already been detained for 11 months

I wonder who was in charge 11 months ago clueless

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 71 points 3 days ago

Headline reads like "actual white person hurt for once: you guys should start caring now".

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 58 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Dystopia is when oppression on non white people happens to white people.

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago

Yeah. Like most dystopian fiction is essentially that.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

Fascism's truly most horrific aspect is the historic colonizer being treated as colonized.

/s

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Hey, I just came up with this cool idea for alternate WWII history: what if America was invaded and overtaken by a horde of greedy white supremacists bent on conquest and extermination?

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 53 points 3 days ago

This should be a clear message to even the hogs "BEING WHITE WONT PROTECT YOU FOREVER".

Even the nazis were willing to murder thousands of their own master race if they didnt do what their wanted or when it was convenient to. The weapons and method used to murder others in the third world, will one day be used on you!.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 55 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This whole story just reminds me of all the European/white people I know who are used to experiencing zero friction when traveling internationally. She said the word you must never say when you're on a tourist visa anywhere: work. Everyone I know who is a poc knows that, because we've been questioned harshly at every passport control.

The last line of the article is crazy, too. "If I had lied, I would be in Canada right now". I feel really shitty for her, and no one should go through what she went through, but at the same time goddamn when are white people gonna learn that you gotta keep your wits about you, especially when traveling internationally.

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

White people (in particular the richer ones) dont experience discomfort or "not being able" to. Its a foreign feeling to be so observed or "visible".

Remember to teach your kids when to lie.

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Lying is not immoral, more and more people are saying it. My family looks at me funny when I tell them you NEED to lie on the internet

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 57 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The following is like something out of a dystopian comedy. "Oh, you have your foot in the US. I'm going to arrest you as your husband watches helplessly..."

There were other tourists, too. Bana, from Romania, was on holiday in Canada and visited Peace Arch park, on the international boundary between the US and Canada. She told Becky she had been taking selfies with her husband when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody.

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Peace Arch Historical State Park – state parks quest #6

Caption - emphasis mine.

By following the various markers, visitors follow the international border, even across the entry road. Park visitors need to keep an eye out for cars, but can otherwise wander on foot between the two countries.

Not anymore!

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nothing screams "freedom" like being in the crosshairs of some hypervigilant ICE psycho's rifle as he imagines pink-misting you and your husband for sightseeing.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago

It's like something out of a dystopia~~n comedy~~.

when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody.

Just fucking shove that dork to the ground and run back into kanada

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So this park/border is near where i used to live and the reason it's called "peace arch" is there's a literal arch with a gate that's left wide open. The inscription on the arch is "may these gates never close" as a symbol of the alliance between the US and Canada.

I used to think, as a kid, just weld it open.

The statement always read more like "please don't close the gate, America" when i got older.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

To be honest - I somehow missed the oddity and symbolism and of people getting arrested at a peace arch. It was only after looking at a Bluesky comment that I thought to myself "How did I miss that???"

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is not purely coming from Trump. This is the mindset of the demons that work at ICE merely let loose by Trump.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago

Exactly, ICE was the fucking gestapo the moment it was created by fool-me-once

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago

Breakfast – which for Becky was cold potato and a sachet of peanut butter, the only vegan option – was at 6am.

Lunch – black beans and more cold potato – was anytime between 11.30am and 2pm. Four times a day, inmates had to sit on their bunks for an hour so they could be counted by staff.

Dinner frequently arrived after 8pm

Wish they said what was in the dinners.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago

Damn, ICE is targeting white people now? Lmao