I have been attacked by the cops for exactly this. Whether anyone who sees this wants to believe it or not is their business, I mean the evidence at this point has been shown to everyone time and time again, and, truckers in particular, seem to be content to live in a bubble of reality that doesn't actually exist, but, I'll make it clear for anyone open minded enough to question their conceptions... The experiences of decently survived, white men, are far, far different from the experiences of everyone else. And the further away from that archetype you get, the worse it becomes.

For many of us, simply existing was and is enough to draw the ire of others, and that's before we open our mouths or draw a pen to lament anything.

What baffled my mind is the amount of people who outright refuse to acknowledge this, including people who are actively being affected by it.

Free speech in the U.S is only for certain people with certain ideas. That's not very "free" to me.

And I know. I'm on the truckers sub.I know that my experiences are more likely to be refuted here than acknowledged, and that many here would like to perpetuate those experiences. But, for those of you who can actually empathize with those whose experiences don't align with yours, understand that here, and in trucking especially, vocalizing your viewpoints and opinions if you aren't a white male c*nservative, who supports a certain notorious electee, is an incredibly risky thing to do, and a commendable action to be taken, regardless of where your views actually lie. Portraying an image of something many will outright call "terrorist" or in recent times "anti-Semitic" (even though that makes absolutely no sense and is born out of geographical, racial, and political ignorance, by incongruously associating all Asian and Middle Eastern cultures) is risky here in the U.S.. I remember seeing a post where someone sprayed "r_ghead" on someone's trailer. What was the response from the trucking community to a racially targeted attack on someone's property? That they AGREED with the person who did it. Imagine someone sprayed cr#cker on a trailer or truck. What would the reaction be then? I have been called the N word more times than I care to think about since I started trucking on and off four years ago, and I've even almost been run off of the road by someone who thought I was an immigrant, and that I'm destroying the country.

So no. Most people here do not understand any aspect of the general concept of civil freedoms at all.