Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
#Trump admin advances plan to deport #Vietnam War refugees, who have been in the US since the 1970s, after "reinterpreting" a 2008 agreement negotiated w/ Viet Nam https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/donald-trump-deport-vietnam-war-refugees/577993/
Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
@ExperimentV @acrata that's the thing, almost all of them are capitalists under the old colonialist system and they fled from the incoming revolutionaries (who I will admit are nothing but sexist and homophobic brocialists and traditionalists)
Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
@ExperimentV @acrata I do would like to clarify that I have these criticism from the POV of an South East Asian
Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
@danishcookies @ExperimentV @acrata
I can't speak for all Asian Americans, but I can (kinda?) support this anecdotally. My grandma (from Thailand) voted for the orange buffoon that haunts my nightmares because she LIKES his immigration policies. "If I came here legally, so can they." At least in my family, it's a cultural sense of "justice". And its narrow. My grandma isn't going to sympathize with the deported, they're not her people in her eyes.
Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
@danishcookies @ExperimentV @acrata
I CAN say that it seems to be getting a lot better with younger generations though, and as this is purely my observations that no one asked for, your mileage may vary.
Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
@LaDuderina @danishcookies @acrata
It's unlikely, but naturalized citizens can become victims of ICE.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ice-citizen-arrest-20171129-story.html
Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
@ExperimentV
It's not like these people understand or accept the existence of the concept of white supremacy. So many people also voted for the neo Nazi and is horrified when they see their neighbors dragged away by ICE
@LaDuderina @acrata
Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
@ExperimentV @LaDuderina @acrata
As for the question about younger generations, I have seen both cases. Some became revolutionaries while others stay reactionaries, most often the cishet men.
Trump to deport Vietnam refugees
@ExperimentV @acrata I'm not even all that surprised if these very people voted for Trump and it bit them in the ass in the end. A lot of Asian Americans are notoriously reactionaries.