“Our thoughts and prayers are with the families…” while we continue to celebrate the hatred that brought about the violence in the first place.
In the almost 50 years that I’ve been alive, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the hatred this rampant in this country. I think the last time resulted in the race riots in the 60s.
Between the President’s rhetoric on immigration that fuels the hatred towards anyone from another country, the race baiting on the left, and everything in between, we just keep stirring people up into a frenzy.
We live in a time where we have created an environment where kids think that an acceptable solution to being upset is to shoot their classmates.
We live in a time where it’s ok to wage war against transgender people because they are different. In a world where almost 50% of transgender people have considered suicide, our society’s answer is to complain about where they go to the bathroom. Then they blatantly ignore the fact that people are killing trans people just for being transgender.
We live in a time where white supremacists are once again marching down the streets, instead of hiding in their little clubs in the mountains.
We live in a country where the laws are designed to punish poor people, and create a society of criminals in order to perpetuate the business that imprisonment has become.
We live in a time where we can compel people to do what we want, just because we think our views are more important than they are. We’re supposed to be living in the “land of the free“ yet we tell people they have to bake a cake that they don’t want to bake just because we feel infringed upon.
I remember when we were fighting in the LGBT community to not get thrown out of the military, or to be able to get married, or just to not have the shit beat out of us on the street because of who we were. Now the fight is to make people bake a cake for us?
We live in a time where we don’t even have the common courtesy to declare war on people that we drop bombs on.
So when I hear “Our thoughts and prayers…“ I have a hard time believing it. It just sounds hollow when I look around.
For those of you who believe in hell, look around I think you’ll see a lot of people you know there. I personally have trouble believing in hell, because I can’t imagine that there’s enough room for all of us.
In the almost 50 years that I’ve been alive, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the hatred this rampant in this country. I think the last time resulted in the race riots in the 60s.
Between the President’s rhetoric on immigration that fuels the hatred towards anyone from another country, the race baiting on the left, and everything in between, we just keep stirring people up into a frenzy.
We live in a time where we have created an environment where kids think that an acceptable solution to being upset is to shoot their classmates.
We live in a time where it’s ok to wage war against transgender people because they are different. In a world where almost 50% of transgender people have considered suicide, our society’s answer is to complain about where they go to the bathroom. Then they blatantly ignore the fact that people are killing trans people just for being transgender.
We live in a time where white supremacists are once again marching down the streets, instead of hiding in their little clubs in the mountains.
We live in a country where the laws are designed to punish poor people, and create a society of criminals in order to perpetuate the business that imprisonment has become.
We live in a time where we can compel people to do what we want, just because we think our views are more important than they are. We’re supposed to be living in the “land of the free“ yet we tell people they have to bake a cake that they don’t want to bake just because we feel infringed upon.
I remember when we were fighting in the LGBT community to not get thrown out of the military, or to be able to get married, or just to not have the shit beat out of us on the street because of who we were. Now the fight is to make people bake a cake for us?
We live in a time where we don’t even have the common courtesy to declare war on people that we drop bombs on.
So when I hear “Our thoughts and prayers…“ I have a hard time believing it. It just sounds hollow when I look around.
For those of you who believe in hell, look around I think you’ll see a lot of people you know there. I personally have trouble believing in hell, because I can’t imagine that there’s enough room for all of us.
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