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Would the economy collapse or thrive? Would there be countries happy to accept the deportees? How would they even deport so many people?

Curious about your thoughts on the hypothetical.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 11 points 14 hours ago

Any country that loses ~40+% of is population all at once is going to have a lot of major issues. Even more so when that population is concentrated in specific industries.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 14 hours ago

Honestly, if it was somehow even possible to do so logistically, the economy would probably go from "suffering" to "terminal implosion."

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Truth is, if you’re not descended from the original colonists, every African American has lineage in the US farther back.

“White” in America is actually a moving goalpost that has been moving since literally the founding of the colonies. “Whites” at the founding of America were Anglo Saxons literally defined as being “English”, who are descended from Germans who subjugated the natives of the British isles (NOT THE IRISH, NOR THE SCOTS). “Whites” today now comprise literally every fair skinned ethnic background that isn’t east Asian. I shit you not, I think Hispanics who are fair skinned will be the next group subsumed into the white category, followed by fair skinned East Asians. Based on the American definition of white, I, darker than some light skinned African Americans, am white. Middle Easterners are legally considered white because, I shit you not, the Supreme Court in the early 20th century considered Jesus to be white by definition, and since Jesus was middle eastern, middle easterners must also be considered “white”.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Middle Easterners are legally considered white because, I shit you not, the Supreme Court in the early 20th century considered Jesus to be white by definition, and since Jesus was middle eastern, middle easterners must also be considered “white”.

🤣🤣🤣

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago

It's going to be fun seeing the administration trying to come up with a legal definition of white and hearing the outcry of MAGAists who suddenly discover they aren't "white".

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

Italians too? /j

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Economic meltdown, most of the population has no one that would take them so they will end up either in camps in failed/failing countries or inside the US itself.

Also getting the white population to agree to do it would be a big lift. The majority would passively oppose and a minority would go full on underground railroad/insurgency.

Only a minority would be totally on board.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Only a minority would be totally on board.

If by minority you mean <50%, then yes. But given how many people voted for Trump, the percentage could be substantially higher than 20%.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Not every trump voter is 100% in board with his policies.

A shocking amount of people are just floating through life on Vibes. They don't know why they do things, it just feels like they should. This applies right up to the ballot box.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The same vibes can lead to feeling on board with mass deportation.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Sure they can, until their cousins, spouses, and neighbors start disappearing, their coworkers, employees, and representatives.

My city has plenty of racists, but even a casual racist might think twice when more than half the city is being deported.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, even some democrats are casual racists.

Most racists are the type that says a racist joke and then tell you to calm down "it's just a joke", most aren't the lynch mobs types.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 11 hours ago

Everybody's a racist, it's just to what degree. Just like everybody's a hypocrite.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 14 hours ago

I can only hope that you are right.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

and theres already animosity towards white people as it is: affluenza, white privelege. this will make them even more of a target. they might keep around poc collaborators(aka right wingers that love to have that privelege)

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

collapse. straight out. Your talking about removing almost half the population at least and then you have what the bar to white is. Palestinian? Israeli? greek? italian? ukrainian? russian? etc, etc.... there have been many opinions on what is white enough right down to the aryan stuff. Then of course there is the final throwing away of any compliance with treatise.

[–] Brutticus@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

I want to point out that it is this reason that OP has stumbled on that White Supremacy is a death cult. The answer is that it would start loose and get more and more narrow. A fascist state needs an enemy to rail against. First, in needs to conquer or cannibalize or subjugate; this is the source of its wealth.

You mentioned "the line" but I also want to point out what white privilege is a social construct that has been extended to groups at different times historically. It was extended to the Jews after the Holocaust (Ashkanaz, at least), and I'm fully expecting somewhere down the line the deportation of America's Jews to Israel (following the forfeiture our property, of course).

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The US food, healthcare, delivery, cleaning, packaging, etc sectors rely very heavily on non whites. Civil war over basic resource distribution would break out in days. Millions would die, assuming it happens magically within a day or so.

But realistically civil war would break out because people would just refuse to leave. 40% of the US population is non-white, there is no way you are getting 130 million people to just leave the country peacefully. It would be the largest undertaking of any kind in human history and its completely impossible unless you stretch it over decades.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago

the sciences also depend on NON-WHITES, plus programming is predominately whites and asians. white people are often in RURAL areas, and heavily depend on immigrant labor to sustain thier in the dump states.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

even having 1 million can be devestating, if it happens to one state at a time. also white people dont like doing jobs of non-whites.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

But realistically civil war would break out because people would just refuse to leave. 40% of the US population is non-white, there is no way you are getting 130 million people to just leave the country peacefully.

Especially not when at least some of the white population would be on their side against those in favour of deportation. There'd be massive non compliance.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What would happen if the US denaturalized and deported all whites?

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Unrealistic, who would take them? Probably easier to reserve some small bits of land somewhere and let them live there. We can call them Reservides or something. Start off saying they have all sorts of rights to the land and slowly start walking back the rights over the years.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 18 hours ago

Good question. Would South Africa accept the refugees?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Immediate collapse. No one would take the deportees long term. There would be a huge swell in support for the deported people, but very rapidly other countries would shut their borders. The only way to realistically deport that many people is to get them to self deport by intimidating them.

I'm not so sure this question is hypothetical anymore.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The funniest thing about your question is defining 'non-whites.'

Back in the day, any Black ancestor made a person Black; that was so slave owners could sell their children by slave mothers. Thomas Jefferson had a slave wife/concubine/rape victim named Sally Hemmings. She was likely his legal wife's half sister. Sally's granddaughter was 1/8th of less African, but it was considered a scandal when she ran off and passed as White.

The longer any family has been in America, the more likely it is that they are 'non-white.'

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

non-whites would refer to all non-caucasian people, everyone thats not from europe or russia.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 1 points 20 hours ago

Irish and Italian people would like a word with you

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago

Given the simplistic way the current administration thinks, it wouldn't surprise me if a visual color-test / race card were implemented.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

It would be literally impossible to pull off.

Trying to deport nearly half the population of the US would require it to be voluntary, and that isn't going to happen. The sectors that would enforce it already include a lot of non-whites who are complicit because they personally are not being deported. People, especially the non-whites whose families have been in the US from before the US acquired their land from Mexico, would absolutely resist. The non-white population is oppressed, sure, but not to the extent of non-white populations in other colonial locations where a few whites are able to enforce racist laws through violence.

If attempted at the federal level it would implode immediately as multiple states would violently resist due to scale.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

As someone who's Chinese American, I'll have to find a new country. I mean... winnie the pooh isn't gonna want me back, I don't even have citizenship in PRC anymore. I mean, I highly doubt they want 5 million westernized people back so quickly.

The first choice I would try is go to Canada, they have a decent ethnic Chinese population and they are English Speaking, so I'll probably fit right in. But IDK if they'll be accepting refugees, since the rest of the US non-whites are also expelled abd many would probably go for Canada. Next option is Australia. Then Singapore. Then maybe Taiwan. Wait actually nvm, China is gonna invade Taiwan since the US would have collapsed. EU could also be another option to asylum.

I honesly don't know where the Black American population is gonna go. I mean, the continent of Africa has been divided so much by European colonialization, that its very hard to track back to an ancestry origin.

Hispanic/Latino Americans would probably go to Spanish speaking South American countries or Mexico.

Also the world could be at risk, since the US would end up as a war zone.. Imagine the KKK or other neo-nazi groups gaining access to a nuclear silo...

I think the world is just gonna end up covered in mushroom clouds after a nuke gets lanuched into Russia or China because nazis want racial purification.

So TLDR: One misplaces nuke in the hands of white supremaciat groups and it escalates into Nuclear WW3.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

ccp is also pretty difficult, since they require people to renounce thier citizenship of birth, and ccp being pretty paranoid is pretty hostile to immigrants. unless you a rich white foreigner(china loves white people that serves several purpose, propaganda and use as the face for "companies" to make them more legitimate.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I guess you didn't read my comment. I'm Chinese American, I was born in Mainland China. I had PRC citizenship until my mother became a US Citizen and I derived US citizenship from my mother's naturalization.

I never formally renounced PRC citizenship (althought I didn't really cared if I lost it at that time, I had zero attachments to China). Its just that under current PRC laws, anyone who acquires foreign citizenship automatically lose PRC citizenship.

But I really don't want to be in China, I'm not gonna be able to watch most western content that I'm so used to (because of the firewall) so I'm just gonna be depressed af and probably kms. Like imagine you don't have all the usual entertainment that you have for the rest of your forseeable life.

Also I'd have to relearn the hardest language in the world.

I mean I guess if the US and China goes to war, and if the US already denaturalized me, I would then no longer have any legal or moral obligations in terms of allegiance to the US (this is hypotheticaly speaking... I'm currently still attached to the US constitution, just not the current administration), so I could theoreticaly just re-learn Mandarin and then I could put my knowledge of English to good use and maybe be a translator/interpretor? I mean I'm essentially a native speaker in both, well... minus like 90% of the Chinese volcabulary that I didn't learn because I immigrated to the US when I was little. But with AI translatoons, humans translatots seem to be obsolete. So idk, its very hard to find a job in China, which is why my parents came to the US in the first place. And also better human rights and freedoms of course (this was long before the current administrstion, for context)

But then again, I'd look for Canada, Australia, and Singapore before I even think of the last resort options like... CCP-Controlled China 😖

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Would the economy collapse or thrive?

No. Pure terror forever. If the US continues down this road, nothing but violence, death, starvation and terror until it is all done. No "US." Fire. Death.

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