This is more of a personal experience than a debate per se, but since I figure it has a good chance of becoming one, I put it here instead of Journals.
A few years ago, I met an Egyptian American in an atheist group online. We became fairly casual friends, catching up from time to time. She's very anti-religious and especially anti-Islamic, so she was more in favor of Trump than Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Back then, when the subject came up in one of our conversations, she told me I was wrong to prioritize other countries over the U.S. as someone aiming for immigration. As she exactly put it, "I know Mexicans and Cubans who voted for Trump. Nothing has changed during his presidency."
Fast-forward to yesterday, she messages me to catch up, as we mutually do on occasion. I asked her how she was doing, and she said she was "stressed and exhausted" and then talked about how much she disliked the GOP and the current SCOTUS. She had to move from California to a red state for the lower costs of living, so she's now in a state that is set to ban abortion.
She feels she's unable to get into a relationship because, as her family are conservative Muslims, even a 1% chance of unwanted pregnancy despite using protection and contraceptives could be disastrous for her--hence her eventual resentment of the GOP and their SCOTUS picks.
I merely said I was sorry she was going through that and expressed support, but I was also reminded of the "First They Came" poem.
This is what can happen when someone supports oppressors merely because they dislike the targets of oppression. They may well end up being a target themselves.
A few years ago, I met an Egyptian American in an atheist group online. We became fairly casual friends, catching up from time to time. She's very anti-religious and especially anti-Islamic, so she was more in favor of Trump than Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Back then, when the subject came up in one of our conversations, she told me I was wrong to prioritize other countries over the U.S. as someone aiming for immigration. As she exactly put it, "I know Mexicans and Cubans who voted for Trump. Nothing has changed during his presidency."
Fast-forward to yesterday, she messages me to catch up, as we mutually do on occasion. I asked her how she was doing, and she said she was "stressed and exhausted" and then talked about how much she disliked the GOP and the current SCOTUS. She had to move from California to a red state for the lower costs of living, so she's now in a state that is set to ban abortion.
She feels she's unable to get into a relationship because, as her family are conservative Muslims, even a 1% chance of unwanted pregnancy despite using protection and contraceptives could be disastrous for her--hence her eventual resentment of the GOP and their SCOTUS picks.
I merely said I was sorry she was going through that and expressed support, but I was also reminded of the "First They Came" poem.
This is what can happen when someone supports oppressors merely because they dislike the targets of oppression. They may well end up being a target themselves.
