This was not what I wanted to be the next thing I published on here, but it’s necessary.
Given what happened in the US elections, and that I apparently have a community around me, it feels important to make my position super clear.
So I posted this in my Discord server today.
So…
The collective American people have successfully voted a racist, sexist, xenophobe convicted felon of a fascist will-be dictator in as president of what remains of their country.
Firstly, everyone is affected by this, doesn’t matter your country or gender or skin colour, all 8.2 billion+ people on the planet lost today, save 1.
So it’s very important that you allow yourself time to feel, time to cry, time to repeatedly punch the wall, anything necessary at all. Putting your own needs first is not selfish, it is necessary.
Secondly, if you have friends in any of the groups that are likely to be targeted as a direct result of this result, please be sure to reach out to them today and tomorrow, and regularly going forward. Life in America is about to become very hellish for those people. And other countries will use this result as an excuse to do the same. A lot of peoples’ lives are about to suck a whole lot more, and they will need their friends and support, in some cases literally to survive.
If you’re not sure if you have any friends in those groups, then I’ll help. You do. Examples include but are not limited to: Women, people of colour, anyone lgbtqia+, anyone not perfectly healthy, anyone not a billionaire, anyone not directly related to him, anyone who supports democracy, anyone who isn’t Putin, and anyone who’s ever said something slightly mean about him.
Thirdly, if you are in any of those groups, please take care and look after yourselves. I’m sorry that you are having to deal with the hateful society that America has apparently made official again.
Fourthly, if you think that someone who transitioned is less than human, or that people shouldn’t have the right to determine what happens with their own body, or that they should be deported en-masse because of the colour of their skin or their country of origin, or that you should be left with debilitating medical debt because your parents happened to not be multi-millionaires, or that what Putin or Netanyahu are doing is somehow justifiable and reasonable, then the below specifically applies to you.
You might be the nicest person in the world (which I very much doubt), but your opinions and apparently everything you believe in goes against everything I believe, and your world view is totally abhorrent to me. Please identify yourself at the earliest opportunity, so I can tell you loudly to fuck right off, remove you from my life anywhere I can as rapidly as possible, and maintain what protected and secure space I can for people who just lost half a continent of such space.
Accepting that other people can and will have different views to my own is important, and I accept that there are many people who disagree with me on different things. But the level of intolerance pushed by the far-right that have now taken such comprehensive control of the USA defies tolerance, acceptance, or a place at a table. It is wrong, and it should not be permitted to exist in any sort of civilised society.
I can offer very little beyond words at this time, but if people need or want somewhere they can yell or cry or write out paragraphs of angry words in safety, my DMs are open to you all.
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