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I'm going to just Godwin this up right off the bat.
"I'm glad that Hitler is dead."
Does that make you mad? Upset? Angry? Am I bad person for genuinely thinking that? Is it wrong of me to think it's karmic justice that he shot himself?
No?
208,000 dead. Unknowable, uncountable children dead in concentration camps, dying alone, terrified and traumatized, stripped from their parents. Countless more living that terror every day. Facist thugs yanking people off the streets into unmarked vans and hauling them off to hold in makeshift prisons with no due process. Billions of dollars stolen and funneled away from vital, necessary government programs to line the pockets of already-wealthy cronies. Egging on racists, causing who knows how much more pain and death. Mocking the disabled, raping women, the list goes on and on and on and on, I've barely touched on the most obvious ones, I could write a fucking book. People have.
And me, personally, legislated out of existence, fearing for my fucking life, wondering if they'll start up the reeducation camps if he wins, making plans to flee the country to somewhere, anywhere, where I'll be allowed to merely exist as myself without having to wonder if I'm going to be a name on the next list of Auschwitz victims. Me, desperately wanting to protest, to do something, anything, and feeling helpless, because it's so bad that I need to worry about leaving my daughter without her parent if I do, because they might kill me, or lock me up for decades, merely for walking down a street with a sign saying I'm a human being who deserves rights.
And then sanctimonious, white, cis, het, privileged ignoramouses want to tell me that I "shouldn't hate", that I should hold love in my heart for that????????
No.
He can fucking rot in hell, and if that bothers you, you can fuck yourself right off my follower list.
"I'm glad that Hitler is dead."
Does that make you mad? Upset? Angry? Am I bad person for genuinely thinking that? Is it wrong of me to think it's karmic justice that he shot himself?
No?
208,000 dead. Unknowable, uncountable children dead in concentration camps, dying alone, terrified and traumatized, stripped from their parents. Countless more living that terror every day. Facist thugs yanking people off the streets into unmarked vans and hauling them off to hold in makeshift prisons with no due process. Billions of dollars stolen and funneled away from vital, necessary government programs to line the pockets of already-wealthy cronies. Egging on racists, causing who knows how much more pain and death. Mocking the disabled, raping women, the list goes on and on and on and on, I've barely touched on the most obvious ones, I could write a fucking book. People have.
And me, personally, legislated out of existence, fearing for my fucking life, wondering if they'll start up the reeducation camps if he wins, making plans to flee the country to somewhere, anywhere, where I'll be allowed to merely exist as myself without having to wonder if I'm going to be a name on the next list of Auschwitz victims. Me, desperately wanting to protest, to do something, anything, and feeling helpless, because it's so bad that I need to worry about leaving my daughter without her parent if I do, because they might kill me, or lock me up for decades, merely for walking down a street with a sign saying I'm a human being who deserves rights.
And then sanctimonious, white, cis, het, privileged ignoramouses want to tell me that I "shouldn't hate", that I should hold love in my heart for that????????
No.
He can fucking rot in hell, and if that bothers you, you can fuck yourself right off my follower list.