This is Charlottesville, VA in 2017 -- Not 1957
Today in WTF is Going on in America?: This story right here. And here.
And in response, @JuliusGoat had some words to say on Twitter this morning:
“Imagine if these people ever faced
actual oppression.
Nobody is trying to legislate away their right to marry. Nobody
is trying to make them buy insurance to pay for 'male health care.'
Nobody
enslaved
their great-grandparents. Robbed their grandparents. Imprisoned their parents.
Shot them when unarmed. There is no massive effort at the state and local level
to disenfranchise them of the vote. There is no history of centuries of bad
science devoted to 'proving' their intellectual inferiority.
There is no travel ban on them because of their religion. There
is no danger for them when they carry dangerous weaponry publicly.
Their churches were never burned. Their lawns never decorated
with burning crosses. Their ancestors never hung from trees.
Their mothers aren't being torn away by ICE troopers and sent
away forever. They won't be forced to leave the only country they ever knew.
The president has not set up a hotline to report crime committed
at their hands.
They are chanting 'we will not be replaced.' Replaced as ...
what? I'll tell you.
Replaced as the only voice in public discussions. Replaced as
the only bodies in the public arena. Replaced as the only life that matters.
THIS is 'white people' oppression: We used to be the only voice.
Now we hold the only microphone.
THIS is 'white man' oppression: We face criticism now. We were
free from it, because others feared the consequences.
THIS is 'oppression' of white Christians in this country: Christmas used to be the only holiday acknowledged, now it's not.
I would so love to see these people get all the oppression they
insist they receive, just for a year. Just to see.
Give them a world where you ACTUALLY can't say Christmas. A
world where the name "Geoff" on a resume puts it in the trash.
Give them a world where they suddenly get a 20% pay cut, and
then 70 women every day tell them to smile more.
Give them a world where their polo shirt makes people nervous,
so they're kicked off the flight from Pittsburgh to Indianapolis.
Give them a world where they inherited nothing but a very real
understanding of what oppression really fucking is.
Give them a world where if they pulled up on a campus with
torches lit and started throwing hands, the cops would punch their eyes out.
Put THAT in your Tiki torches and light it, you sorry Nazi
bitches. Good morning, by the way, how is everybody?"
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