Nicol > Recent Status Updates

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Misogyny is the elephant in this room

“European immigrants of all nationalities were welcomed” so inaccurate it has to be a joke right?

“In the beginning, the door was open” Nope, nope, nope.

“Both you and other people are allowed to have negative emotions. You’re allowed to express hurt, and pain, and fear, and misery, and grief. You’re allowed to feel you want to die. We want to try to diminish those feelings, but to do that we must acknowledge their existence and that they exist for a reason.”

“It’s dangerous to indulge in blind optimism.“

“ … we are not a monolith; that we are flawed humans with complicated, painful histories. “

“The truth is , it’s very hard to understand Latinx(o) identity without acknowledging the way it’s been fundamentally shaped and transformed by centuries of Latin American colonialism and the US’s own violent history with race and racism. “

“Anti-immigrant sentiment is visceral. It is tribal. And it provokes a feeling that can transcend lines of race and ethnicity. . . Latinos are not immune to those feelings. ”

“The truth is that we are constantly negotiating the pressures of racial, cultural and/or political assimilation.”

What am I reading?!? I am both horrified and intrigued 🤣