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Wayshow:
It's easy to talk about unity, Gene, but it's not going to happen for a while and you know it.
Outside the northeast, my boyfriend's sister who's from Chicago is straight, but since she has a gay brother she was called "scum of the earth"
On her college campus in Kentucky (University of Kentucky, so not some small liberal arts college. Also a red millennial state), there have been cases of sexual assault, POC have been harassed ("Go home," "this is our land" etc), and policemen are everywhere. Muslim women on her campus are walking around without hijabs because they fear being assaulted.
Unity is an easy thing to say when you're not faced with overwhelming odds. Fuck unity. If the Trump bums preach unity and treat us with bigotry and discrimination, don't expect us to take it quietly.
On another note, I'm looking into taking self defense classes, because as a Gay, POC immigrant, I doubt Trump nation will treat me with any scrap of kindness.
Last note, I'm never leaving Massachusetts, and I'm going to spend the rest of my time here extremely blazed.
His Lordship:
What the hell happened to you Tim? You've become really cynical and bitter since I last knew you.
One of the things I've always liked best about you was how positive you could be in this community.
That you couldn't reach out to Trump voters was part of the reason they got angry enough to vote in such large numbers.
Don't tell me about discrimination. I've had far more years of being a minority in a racist country than you have (and I was obese, antisocial and grew up in a rough neighbourhood), and I'm still working toward unity with as much optimism as I can muster.
If you want to run away from the discussion again because you don't have the ability and life skills to cope with a different moral stance to yours, then be my guest.
Keith:
--- Quote from: Wayshow on November 11, 2016, 03:26:02 am ---It's easy to talk about unity, Gene, but it's not going to happen for a while and you know it.
Outside the northeast, my boyfriend's sister who's from Chicago is straight, but since she has a gay brother she was called "scum of the earth"
On her college campus in Kentucky (University of Kentucky, so not some small liberal arts college. Also a red millennial state), there have been cases of sexual assault, POC have been harassed ("Go home," "this is our land" etc), and policemen are everywhere. Muslim women on her campus are walking around without hijabs because they fear being assaulted.
Unity is an easy thing to say when you're not faced with overwhelming odds. Fuck unity. If the Trump bums preach unity and treat us with bigotry and discrimination, don't expect us to take it quietly.
On another note, I'm looking into taking self defense classes, because as a Gay, POC immigrant, I doubt Trump nation will treat me with any scrap of kindness.
Last note, I'm never leaving Massachusetts, and I'm going to spend the rest of my time here extremely blazed.
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Lucky for you MA is liberal AF ##
Wayshow:
Reach out to the disenfranchised? The democratic and Republican Party both failed to do that
Don't me cynical when you're not 10 miles away from this bullshit, because the bullshit isn't going away for the next 4 years.
His Lordship:
Yes, because i've never seen discrimination in my life.
It's as if you didn't realise I voted in the Brexit referendum and had to face racism then...
Or grown up with racist remarks hurled toward me in school playgrounds.
I really wish you'd give me more credit. I've felt hate my entire life, and I know I'll keep getting it.
Be concerned, be motivated, be involved, but don't give them more reason to hate you and our kind.
Look at solutions, not problems; we can show them we're not so different to them and they don't need to be scared of us.
If you're going to spout hatred toward them, then you're just creating more racists.