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In reply to the discussion: A Trump Fan Just Got Caught Harassing A Muslim Woman At Trader Joe's in VA [View all]IronLionZion
(51,067 posts)it gives me hope for humanity. Brown people deal with this every day even in liberal NoVa which Hillary won in a big way. She got Fairfax and Loudoun counties by decisive margins. Reston is in very diverse, educated, wealthy Fairfax county. A lot of minorities live in Reston.
We're not just over sensitive triggered snowflakes. It's a daily barrage of lunacy.
Bigots have been emboldened after the election and think they can harass and intimidate brown US Citizens, especially those of us who are born in America and compete with these bigots for US citizen only jobs in federal contracting. They desperately convince themselves to believe that Americans are white and foreigners are brown as if their careers, houses, and livelihoods depend on it.
Many brown federal employees have already been demoted or reassigned to bullshit simply for having Middle Eastern or South Asian ancestry. It's happened to Republicans who joined during the Bush administration. Americans have randomly lost their Global Entry/TSA Pre-check simply for having foreign sounding names. Deplorables even point to Trump's one brown FCC chairman as an excuse for all the other brown people who have been Trumped already in the first 100 days.
Nobody tells the Trumps that America should have never let them come over from Germany and Scotland.