Garrison Davis

campus tendency to literally steal the voice of Venezuelan people and speak on their behalf.

Yeah.

That's nothing new though.

I mean, I remember when I was in college, um, it was kind of the same, like there were, I think it was like 2017, there were some protests and, and people were saying all sorts of things.

And I remember losing a lot of my friends in college because of that.

Cause I was saying like, you know, it's more complicated than that.

Like

you know actually people do dislike this person for this this and this reason and yeah I remember losing a lot of friends because of that maybe not a mental breakdown because it was just like a lot right yeah I remember even at one point I went to like a cafe it was one of these like cafes where people write on the walls and it said like fuck Venezuelans and I was just like

What a fucking dystopia am I living in?

And I also used to work at a front desk, and this guy somehow found out that I was Venezuelan, and he started saying, like, oh, Maduro's the best, like, whatever.

And my boss had to come in and, like, take the guy away because he was just being really, like, rowdy, right?

So...

Yeah, it's complicated.

In fact, when we introduce ourselves, we don't say that we're Venezuelan immediately just because it can be dangerous at times.

Yeah, especially now we have this combination of like, we've discussed this, but on the right, Venezuelan people are all perceived to be fucking members of Tren de Aragua now.

And then, yeah, it's that or you line up behind the regime and even when

Those two things are not as distinct as people, you know, sometimes in their imagination see them, but they're also not as joined as other people in their imagination see them.

Yeah, it doesn't give you a place to express your identity, right?

You just have to fit into someone else's box.

Yeah.