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I already know I'm not safe and have begun to make 'thought experiment' plans for where to go and how to get there. What I want to sell first, what I'd want to bring. How to transport my cats. It's *terrifying*, but I'm not going to repeat the mistakes my lost ancestors did. 3 comments
@mcnknopp @JoanGrey @cstross when it reaches that point, it's already too late. Even people who saw the Nazis coming and applied for refugee status, e.g. Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, who moved to the Netherlands and tried to emigrate to the US in 1938 and 1941 (he was rejected both times, with the consequences we know). @fazalmajid @mcnknopp @cstross My husband is a British citizen, we live four hours from the Canadian border, I figure if things go bad, I won't be (as awful as this sounds) in the first wave. I know *exactly* why people were rejected by the US (it's not like we've really *changed* as a country, in some ways), but I fall, extremely luckily, into a slightly less at-risk group. I'm also willing to walk away from everything, if push comes to shove. I have read history. |
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@JoanGrey @cstross That's so heartbreaking.
I heard of that eg Jews in Austria have packed luggage in their homes to be able to leave immediately...
I still feel save, living in Austria, being white, hetero(?) male. But with increasing right wing power and a mother being born in UK because their parents had to emigrate, I do sometimes think about where to go.