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Yes very privileged to have my Homeland stolen, my family slaughtered, my people genocided, spend over 15 years struggling with immigration and paying lawyers to get the US citizenship so I can get a decent job with my education in the country that helped steal mine and make me a refugee in the first place, and when they started calling me a terrorist again and jolted my memory of the post 9-11 racism I experienced, and when it was apparent other Americans don't give a shit about anyone but themselves and will cheer a genocidal candidate calling for most lethal military, when it became clear ICE will be targeting unnatural citizens like me, when it became obvious that my neighbors would sit back and watch as the government collected me from my home, I gave up the life I built and all my friends and "ran", it was such a privilege.
You're oppressed, on the other hand, sitting on your ass and doing nothing meaningful as fascism takes grasp, and blaming everyone but yourself for failure to see your own cult's authoritarianism when Biden repeatedly bypassed Congress to fund his genocide, when he spread lies about seeing beheaded babies to justify it, or when his Himler literally had reporters dragged out by police for asking questions about Gaza in the press room.
I'm very privileged to rebuild my life in yet another country that's not mine, where I don't even have citizenship and might very well be kicked out at any moment, because again the US helps destroy and steal and prevents the reformation of my stolen Homeland. Instead both parties fully support the extermination of my people and both fund the building of literal themeparks on ancestors' greaves.
Which complicit European country are you from then? How much did your country assist in the genocide through diplomatic cover and propaganda distribution? How many people did your country arrest and continue to arrest for speaking up? Is it one of the many where the phrase "free Palestine" is now considered antisemitic?
You're not better.
You're are uneducated on this topic, but life a typical westerner, insist your limited viewpoint from whatever you've glanced at is unquestionably true. Anything to project your superiority.
I know, that's what I said. You have to throw every insult and justification to make it my fault to justify your lack of empathy, because we are lesser people.
This isn't for you then, it's for posterity. Fuck you, genocidal prick.
And for the record: I removed myself from the US so I can remove my economic contribution to the empire, as I couldn't live with the fact that my taxes directly funded the genocide of my people.
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Disgusting.