Because we’re the enemy. We’re different and bad and we make them uncomfortable so we must be why they’re unhappy and why their lives aren’t what they thought they should be
That is the plain truth, that some would literally and without hesitation hurt and even kill complete strangers without cause – and then call it holy – rather than look inside and deal with their own shadow.
I am legitimately terrified for you, and for everyone not white/cis/het right now. I mean, I’m terrified for all of us, because no one comes out of a shift into authoritarianism/fascism untouched, but I am especially frightened for those of us who have historically borne the reflection of miserable people’s lives.
Nothing in this world is more wrong than denying entire classes of human beings the right to exist in peace.
I’ve been finding a strange peace in understanding our history. Not just the history beginning with the 20th century but the reality that we’ve always been everywhere. When we’re cracked down on we rise back in the shadows in a generation, the second the grip inevitably slips enough. Is it a good life? No, it’s one of crimes of desperation, like sex work. But it is a life, and it’s a life that many found worth living unlike a life in the closet.
Even if the worst comes to pass some of our killers’ descendants will claim us as ancestors. And I for one claim them as my descendants.
Because we’re the enemy. We’re different and bad and we make them uncomfortable so we must be why they’re unhappy and why their lives aren’t what they thought they should be
That is the plain truth, that some would literally and without hesitation hurt and even kill complete strangers without cause – and then call it holy – rather than look inside and deal with their own shadow.
I am legitimately terrified for you, and for everyone not white/cis/het right now. I mean, I’m terrified for all of us, because no one comes out of a shift into authoritarianism/fascism untouched, but I am especially frightened for those of us who have historically borne the reflection of miserable people’s lives.
Nothing in this world is more wrong than denying entire classes of human beings the right to exist in peace.
I’ve been finding a strange peace in understanding our history. Not just the history beginning with the 20th century but the reality that we’ve always been everywhere. When we’re cracked down on we rise back in the shadows in a generation, the second the grip inevitably slips enough. Is it a good life? No, it’s one of crimes of desperation, like sex work. But it is a life, and it’s a life that many found worth living unlike a life in the closet.
Even if the worst comes to pass some of our killers’ descendants will claim us as ancestors. And I for one claim them as my descendants.