• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    I just think that as an outsider challenging deeply held cultural beliefs she shouldn’t have expected to be welcomed as a citizen

    Of course not. Keep people of different beliefs legally segregated and treat anyone in foreign soil as a second class human.

    Otherwise, you might be annoyed from time to time.

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      39 minutes ago

      There is a middle ground and you’re deliberately not seeing it.

      If you demand change of others, you will be met with resentment.

      If you slowly convince others of change, you can build friends and allies and grow a movement

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        31 minutes ago

        There is a middle ground

        There’s no middle ground between citizenship and non-citizenship. And dangling threat of denied legal residency as a form of censorship is exactly the kind of fascist shit we’re seeing in Trump’s America.

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          But she wasn’t denied legal residency, she was denied citizenship. And you don’t need citizenship to speak, so I fail to see the censorship.

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            she was denied citizenship

            Which denies her a host of legal protections within the community, heaps additional bureaucratic burdens in renewing non-citizen residency papers, and exposes her to summary deportation on the whims of state security.

            I fail to see the censorship

            Threatening to deny someone citizenship based on their expressed political views is textbook censorship.