This is gonna be a very short post.
Bit of a rant.
Bit of advice, too.
There are already racists and White/Any other non-Brown Ethnicity supremacist
claiming yet again that "Hey, it's not so bad!" or that "It's only temporary!"
These are the spineless ones. The ones who won't admit to their bigotry.
If history is any indication,
they will eventually let their true colours show.
Here's the advice bit:
If ANY of non-Brown or rich friends tell you not to worry,
or brush off your concerns,
or even try to tell you that you're wrong about
how bad it fucking truly is...
and they're not doing it just to console you...
then they are NOT your friends.
This is something you need to understand.
Maybe at some point they were,
but they're not anymore.
The best you can hope for is not to get any kind of help
when you truly need it.
They're willing to watch you drown
with a smile on their faces while patting themselves
on the back for being decent, moral people.
The worst...
Well, I think you know.
Ask all the people throughout history
who have lived through genocides and similar atrocities
how shocked they were that their neighbours turned on them so quickly.
That they people who used to greet them in the hallway,
or in the street.
These are those people.
They may not be the only ones,
but I promise you that they are within that group.
So what do you do?
Have contingencies in place.
Continue to be kind (don't just act, but BE kind),
continue to be trustworthy,
and most importantly,
continue to be a decent human being.
Just be very careful.
I need to have contingencies in place for my family as well.
There's very little doubt in my mind that if Singapore
were to implement a similar policy,
that they'd outlaw Islam and Muslims,
that there'd be plenty of bootlicking Muslim police officers and
soldiers who'd do as they are told so long as they get a pat on the head
and a few crumbs.
Unlikely to happen, though.
Not with Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei in the region.
But what they'd likely do is a continuation of what
they'd always done:
Pick a few off. Demonise them.
Scare the rest.
This is what I'd need to guard against.
It's not something I can physically fight out of us.
Like most cowards throughout history,
they will crowd together,
and hide behind weapons and discriminatory laws.
Nope.
Alternative plans must be made.
If things go sideways,
we need to have a country we can go to where
we'll be able to live our lives in peace.
Some place people won't think to look twice at us.
Maybe Mongolia,
or hell, even fucking Siberia.
Who knows.
Well enough of that.
