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Pls remember wrds have impact. Invoking the Holocaust can b triggering. Pls don't leave us out of your activism too.
It's true. We're all scared and stressed out and worrying about the weeks and months to come.
I'm not trying to take away from that. The very real fear that LGBTQ2SIA Black, POC, disabled, Muslim, Indegenous, women, people are experiencing. This is simply a respectful request for visibility.
The day president elect Hitler 2.0 won the highest office in America (let's be honest. America is hardly the 'most powerful country in the world'. Biggest bully does not equal most powerful) was also the 78th anniversary of the night the 'solution to the Jewish problem' was set in motion. Kristallnacht marked one of the first direct actions against the Jewish people and helped start a war that would forever damage the entire planet.
Not many people online seemed to notice. But they were all still referencing all the ways Drumpf is a Nazi.
We are scared. We have been here before. We know what it's like. (I've been trying so hard not to say we told you so. But dammit. We begged you to remember history, or repeat it) It’s really hard to be out here, feeling like we're on our own watching the world remind us of the tragedies that have befallen us. While silencing us and excluding us from the conversation.
You know all that talk about 'international bankers?' That's about us. Straight out of the Nazi handbook. And a bunch of people tried to tell us it had nothing to do with us. We were overreacting. Looking for reasons to be dramatic. Do you still believe that? That people do that? That we don't know our history or experiences better than anyone else?
Have you noticed? Anti-Semitism is rarely part of people's activism? Even though both Drumpf and Pence are noted anti-Semites?
People are quick to invoke the Holocaust but slow to hear and acknowledge our fears. As if the Holocaust wasn't a thing that happened to us. As if we aren't targeted every time a swastika is spray painted on a building or whenever a white person shouts 'sieg heil'. As if the very things that trigger you. Don’t trigger us too.
‘Don't overreact. It's not such a big deal. We will deal with it.’
The Principal told that to my Mum when she came in to talk about the fact that my brother was getting beaten up nearly every week. Often while those boys screamed 'dirty jew' and ‘get out of our town'
'Just paint over it’
The police officer when we called about the swastika spray painted on our garage.
The house finally went on the market when the older brothers of the boys who kept attacking my brother, followed my Mum home after dark. She wasn't easily fucked with. But she was terrified for her children.
'We don't need any statements'
Another police officer. As my mum tried to wash the blood off her hands and clothes.
While holding the door open for an elder woman, she watched as the sweet elder man who always had pockets full of Wurthers Originals for all the young yeladim fell to the ground on the front steps. Less than 10ft from where she stood. Shot. In the head. While I was learning Hebrew downstairs.
Somehow. That sweet Zaidy didn't die.
They tried to kill us. But we're still here.
Our Shul went from a comfortable place to engage in culture, community and tradition. To an intimidating, locked-down, armed-guarded, place where fear tainted every celebration and hate lurked in the tall hedges that used to feel like the divide between a suspicious world and the safe bubble of love and light and community.
Forever altered.
'Maybe you shouldn't be getting into trouble'
A 'friend' after I was cornered in the back of a bar by a group of white supremacists. Heart racing and palms sweaty I... <<<<<< N.B from Jumbotweet: auto-truncated at 4K characters on index page - Click here or on the "view" link to see entire jumbotweet! http://www.jumbotweet.com/ltweets/view/175137