• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I feel especially bad for the immigrant gen-z.

    Imagine you just fled a political dictatorship with your family, and now you watch a new political dictatorship form but with AI and racism.

    At like fucking 15.

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      9 months ago

      I have a family member to whom this happened three separate times during their youth. They are fairly unsurprised by what is going on in the US as it’s all very familiar for them.

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        9 months ago

        Nah, not just to the US. We do have problems with emboldened neonazis in Europe, too. While not to the extend you might experience in the US, I wouldn’t want to be black or southern/eastern mediterranean here either.

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            9 months ago

            And in the US it wasn’t? Set aside how non-whites were treated and exploited as cheap labor, how were asians treated during and after WWII, Korea, Vietnam? How are latin americans treated? How are middle eastern people treated since 9/11?

            Don’t make the mistake believing this is new. It’s just getting turned up to eleven.