Joseph on Nostr: nprofile1q…93cap nprofile1q…e4kmp Thank you for this. Just yesterday, I was ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq243vh0r2sc260huddc9934a5uw5fc6hc3x9hmyhc57jrzd2js5hqf93cap (nprofile…3cap) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq9ly5nycz3gdcehlrtkhp6g75vlg65209ytzzansyhsqdpnzmcpyqke4kmp (nprofile…4kmp) Thank you for this. Just yesterday, I was thinking about the analogous situation in the United States of America. Of course, like other countries, we have no restrictions on movement across our state borders. And, until recently, crossing our border with Canada was easy. It has only been our border with Mexico that most of my fellow countrymen have long insisted on policing. Why is that? Well there is the matter of darker skin color which has also contributed to unequal treatment of indigenous peoples, African Americans, and Japanese Americans in the United Stares. My white skin color is a structural advantage and I suspect the same is true for white Europeans—they’re not the problem. Greta Thunberg is correct that racism and other -isms are the problem. Alas, despite UN documents that discourage the practice, ableism seems to be a serious obstacle to my disabled transgender daughter immigrating and obtaining residency in a friendly European country. So, I guess we will stay here in this shithole country.