A quick note based on my post-Brexit experience in the UK – in the time period after the election, your biggest threat will not be Trump and his government. It will be your newly validated bigot neighbours. After Brexit, hate crime shot up by 60% in the UK nearly overnight and it still hasn’t returned to its pre-Brexit level. I imagine the same will happen in America. Be careful. No matter who they are, Trump voters are not your friends. Be safe. Your biggest enemy right now is the neighbour you went to church with and the people you pass on the street every day. Lock down. Go to ground if you have to. Look out for one another. Please, be careful.
THIS is what you can do tight now if you are white and desperate in America right now:
– Cook your Latino, Black, Native, LGBT, Muslim and Asian neighbours a casserole tonight. I can assure you, they are much more afraid than you today and maybe they should not get out of the house.
– Offer to take them or their kids wherever they need to go when they have appointments and maybe school.
– Go over and say hi, say: I know you are scared. How can I help you?
– If you see a woman wearing a hijab on the subway, sit next to her and smile.
– If you see a man wearing a turban, a kippah do the same.
– Watch out for your kids non-white class mates.
– If you see someone hollering racist shit at another person in the streets and it feels relatively safe. CALL THEM OUT ON IT.
It is not that more people suddenly are racist. But many people suddenly feel validated and allowed to abuse others. Those people? Are cowards! As soon as someone stands up to them, they shrink back into their little holes!
RACISM IS A PLANT THAT GROWS IN FERTILE DIRT.
iF YOU NIP IT IN THE BUD OFTEN TIMES IT WILL WITHER AWAY.
Wehret den Anfängen!
Wehret den Anfängen
“Fight back the beginnings” (Mostly of misfortune and bad happenings)
-From the “Remedia amoris” by Publius Ovidius Naso, a roman poet
Full quote:
“Fight back the beginnings! Too late is the medicine ready as the bad has strengthened due to hesitation”
Don’t let the bad plant grow!
“many people suddenly feel validated and allowed to abuse others. Those people? Are cowards! As soon as someone stands up to them, they shrink back”
YES
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