Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I'm sure you and many of us have noticed the sudden shift in the last 24 hours, with many members of this website not only telling POC, LBGT, and women that we should tolerate and be accepting of the right, but pretending that not doing so means that we just wanna stick to an echochamber, are trying to take the moral high ground, are just as bad as the the alt right, and a whole bunch of other logic that anyone with even a semblance of logical thought would see is absolutely ridiculous. The crux of the matter is this:
Why are you targeting this criticism towards minorities, lbgt, and women, why do you feel the need to tell them that they are the issue, not the xenophobia, sexism, and racism? That's it's all just a difference of political opinion, when all three are inherently moral issues that have nothing to do with politics whatsoever since they existed before modern politics. You really can't see how ridiculous that sounds? Who are you to tell people who you can't very clearly can't actually empathize with, how they should feel and act? You're honestly telling people that they should welcome backwards and outdated principles treat the people who'd give them no time of day whatsoever and would rather sling a racial slur, defend a rape, tell them they shouldn't exist or that there's something wrong with them, or kick them out of the country with productive discussion when news:WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR LITERALLY DECADES!!
MLK had the perfect words to describe this situation:
This statement is more true than ever after last night, as i've been told all day by different users that I should stop overreacting at the fact that half of America actively voted to take my rights away, that I should stop overreacting about shit like this happening near where I live, that I should stop overreacting over being called a nigger on the walk home last night. No, i'm not gonna be a kind arms welcoming gentlemen towards people who'd never do the same for me. And i'm not gonna apologize for that.
So I implore any person who feels the need to tell minorities, LBGT, or women how they should feel, act or behave towards the people who view them as subhuman based on the way they were born, stop it, turn your attention elsewhere and stop acting like us, the victims, are the issue.
EDIT:BEFORE ANYONE KEEPS COMING IN HERE WITH REVISIONIST HISTORY
So a lot of people were saying we should try and find compromise, problem is, we've been trying to do that not only for the last 8 years of Presidency but for decades.
Treating us like equals shouldn't be considered a compromise, it should be an inherent thing that people do, treating black people, LBGT people, minorities in general shouldn't be a controversial thing to do.
Why are you targeting this criticism towards minorities, lbgt, and women, why do you feel the need to tell them that they are the issue, not the xenophobia, sexism, and racism? That's it's all just a difference of political opinion, when all three are inherently moral issues that have nothing to do with politics whatsoever since they existed before modern politics. You really can't see how ridiculous that sounds? Who are you to tell people who you can't very clearly can't actually empathize with, how they should feel and act? You're honestly telling people that they should welcome backwards and outdated principles treat the people who'd give them no time of day whatsoever and would rather sling a racial slur, defend a rape, tell them they shouldn't exist or that there's something wrong with them, or kick them out of the country with productive discussion when news:WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR LITERALLY DECADES!!
MLK had the perfect words to describe this situation:
This statement is more true than ever after last night, as i've been told all day by different users that I should stop overreacting at the fact that half of America actively voted to take my rights away, that I should stop overreacting about shit like this happening near where I live, that I should stop overreacting over being called a nigger on the walk home last night. No, i'm not gonna be a kind arms welcoming gentlemen towards people who'd never do the same for me. And i'm not gonna apologize for that.
So I implore any person who feels the need to tell minorities, LBGT, or women how they should feel, act or behave towards the people who view them as subhuman based on the way they were born, stop it, turn your attention elsewhere and stop acting like us, the victims, are the issue.
EDIT:BEFORE ANYONE KEEPS COMING IN HERE WITH REVISIONIST HISTORY
Because it doesn't work, as this election's shown. As long as the side you want to vilify hold the voting majority you can't win any victories without making inroads with them. Fairness doesn't come into it; only what works and what doesn't.
They weren't even the voting majority, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
At the end of the day, it boils down to this.
Q: Why would you vote for a man who clearly is racist, has many "issues" with women, (insert 1000 other negative traits).
A: Because he said he'll lower my taxes.
That's pretty much it? Fine. You're not racist. You're not a misogynist. You're not a climate change denier, supporter of sexual assault or believer that LGBT should not have equal rights and what not.
Your're a squeaky clean, lovely person.
But why do I not get to point my finger at you for voting for a man who clearly represents and stands by those things?
Because you only cared about taxes? Or...what?
White supremacists are feeling like they're relevant now. That was BEFORE Trump even won. People WILL now face more racism in America. I've seen the result from Brexit.
RUDY GIULIANNI will likely be Attorney General........in a time where we are trying to sort out the way police treat minorities in America.
Supreme court justices will not be so favourable towards LGBT communities.
Trump can EASILY repeal executive order Obama made to allow immigrants to have genuine work and life prospects instead of hiding and taking exploitative under the table work.
You voted for a person who will do these things. Why can I not criticise you for it?
I just need to accept that you decided to fuck me over as long as you feel a guy who refuses to manufacture his goods in the USA is going to bring jobs back to the USA, because something something MLK wouldn't be getting all uppity like this?
This mindset of "hey, don't you dare look at me like that! I only like what he said about taxes/elites, that doesn't make me a racist, xenophobe, liar, con artist too!" is both confusing and infuriating.
So a lot of people were saying we should try and find compromise, problem is, we've been trying to do that not only for the last 8 years of Presidency but for decades.
Treating us like equals shouldn't be considered a compromise, it should be an inherent thing that people do, treating black people, LBGT people, minorities in general shouldn't be a controversial thing to do.