[quote=@Penny]As I said [@mdk] when I explicitly state that something is my lived experience, I mean that I personally have experienced it. I explicitly stated that I didn't adsorb it from the media. If there are similar reports, consider that they might actually represent common experiences.[/quote]

I'm arguing that "MAGA = get rid of everybody not white" is something you may have absorbed, because that argument is not a matter of experience and it [b]strongly[/b] resembles the media's version. It certainly doesn't represent my attitude, or that of the people I know and/or interact with (greater than half the trump supporters in my immediate circle are minorities). That is [i]my[/i] lived experience. But as I said -- swapping anecdotes will get us nowhere. 

THE MORAL IS -- I think it's awful that you're living in fear. I'm [i]convinced[/i] that you're not making up stories about random assholes -- there are definitely random assholes, I doubt none of that. I'm [i]similarly convinced[/i] that the political left [i]wants you[/i] to feel this way, because (a) it serves their interest, (b) they're actively spreading an agenda tailor-made to that purpose, and (c) it's working -- you're repeating their propaganda without even knowing you're doing it.