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Links, please? I haven't seen anything suggesting that, yet.
I'm probably OK. I'm straight. I'm White. Though I am agnostic and don't buy the State Religion behind Project 2025.
My wife, however, is Black, Bisexual, and Pagan, four strikes, and now I'm a race traitor for having married her, so there's my strike.
Just to point out it doesn't matter how white you are if you say something they don't agree with.
Or do something they don't agree with. Like marrying a Black bisexual pagan woman.
That's my type!
100% gamer chick too. I'm lucky to have her, and even as we check out girls together, I just look, because I know I have a good girl at home. :)
Or even look at them wrong.
I mean, take a good look at Luigi and how hard they're trying to blame him. You don't get much more white than Italian. Maybe Scottish, but it's close.
I mean, I actually think it is very possible to be more white than Italians—they weren’t even considered white in America until the last 100 years or so.
Yes, this. I'm quite sure if I ventured back to the place where I grew up I could find more than a few people that would consider Italians as non-white.
Which is kind of funny when I think about the casual racism that was thrown around by my Italian immigrant Grandmother when I was a kid.
You forgot about the discrimination of Italians in America.
Just like US was no fan of Irish immigrants either.
Really just pick a country and at some point the US has probably discriminated against people from there.
Ask a white supremacist if Italians are white
There is a lot of anti-Italian sentiment. Especially South Italian, where folks start looking much darker in skin
I'll give you this much. I'm certain your google-fu is up to the task of finding further info...
My google-fu hasn't up to this point. In fact, I get lots of results saying that Americans are not welcome as asylum seekers in my googling. Your single link only shows places that take American immigrants, not places welcoming American refugees. In fact, New Zealand is suffering from a Conservative-inflicted recession that is making things difficult for immigrants and natives alike, and Australia has some serious restrictions on immigrants (a close friend of mine did that route and barely made the cut). And Canada? Despite a victory for the Liberal Party and 'elbows up' regarding American rhetoric, they still have lots of people angry about how immigration has been handled.
If you actually have links to help get victimised people out of the USA, maybe instead of 'why don't u google it urself', maybe post those links. That's FAR more helpful than the whole 'go do it urself!' response. :)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trans-right-asylum-canada-trump-transgender-hannah-kreager/
https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-lgbtq-canada-asylum-immigration-2061055
From a non- paywall article about Hannah Kreager:
I hope she's successful. The Safe Third Country agreement needs to be ended. Until that time, the path to claiming refuge status from the US will be extremely expensive and onerous and not likely to be successful. The canadian government needs to be called out on their hypocrisy and refusal to 'rock the boat' by ending it.
I don't know if the Safe Third Country agreement would apply to this, since the US wouldn't be the Third Country. Wouldn't that only apply if she went from somewhere else in the world to the US and then to Canada. She's from the US, not from somewhere else coming to Canada via the US. I think if it did she would've been deported immediately.
But yeah ending the Safe Third Country agreement needs to be a priority. They're sending people to a gulag down there FFS, it's definitely not a safe third country for asylum seekers by any stretch of the imagination.
You're right, the STCA does not apply to US citizens. But as long as the US is considered "safe", refugee claims are going to be impossible to argue.
Thanks for these. They don't make it clear that Canada is a valid destination for LGBTQ+ folks to seek asylum from, but they do indicate that there is discussion in Canada. Have to see how the referenced cases go, though.
Just go North. That was key in slavery and Vietnam. And today.