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everypaneofglass:

kat2107:

v1als:

A quick note based on my post-Brexit experience in the UK – in the time period after the election, your biggest threat will not be Trump and his government. It will be your newly validated bigot neighbours. After Brexit, hate crime shot up by 60% in the UK nearly overnight and it still hasn’t returned to its pre-Brexit level. I imagine the same will happen in America. Be careful. No matter who they are, Trump voters are not your friends. Be safe. Your biggest enemy right now is the neighbour you went to church with and the people you pass on the street every day. Lock down. Go to ground if you have to. Look out for one another. Please, be careful.

THIS is what you can do tight now if you are white and desperate in America right now: 

– Cook your Latino, Black, Native, LGBT, Muslim and Asian neighbours a casserole tonight. I can assure you, they are much more afraid than you today and maybe they should not get out of the house. 

– Offer to take them or their kids wherever they need to go when they have appointments and maybe school.

– Go over and say hi, say: I know you are scared. How can I help you?

– If you see a woman wearing a hijab on the subway, sit next to her and smile.

– If you see a man wearing a turban, a kippah do the same. 

– Watch out for your kids non-white class mates. 

– If you see someone hollering racist shit at another person in the streets and it feels relatively safe. CALL THEM OUT ON IT.

It is not that more people suddenly are racist. But many people suddenly feel validated and allowed to abuse others. Those people? Are cowards! As soon as someone stands up to them, they shrink back into their little holes!

RACISM IS A PLANT THAT GROWS IN FERTILE DIRT. 

iF YOU NIP IT IN THE BUD OFTEN TIMES IT WILL WITHER AWAY. 

Wehret den Anfängen! 

I was actually coming home to make a post about this very thing this morning.  Possibly the worst thing about Trump’s election is that it has legitimized and normalized the bigotry and hatred he built his campaign around.  People who supported him did so because they supported those ideas and now, with his election, those ideas have been validated.

While that’s absolutely going to lead to a lot of overt violence, you’d better believe that it’s going to lead to even more lowkey bigotry.  People are going to be testing these waters, seeing how much bigotry they can get away with out in the open.  That’s why, in addition to the things above, it’s more important than ever to push back against that kind of lowkey hate when you hear it.  

In your home, in your school, in your workplace, in your “friendly” spaces, people are trying to find out “who’s with me”, they’re trying to figure out “us” and “them” and that’s how they’re going to do it.  By saying things and seeing who agrees, who pushes back, who stays silent. I know it’s so hard to stand up to people you like, people who you want to like you, people you have to spend time with pretty much every day whether you like each other or not.  I know it is, but I can’t stress enough how important it is right now to not let bigotry go unchallenged.  Be smart about it and keep yourself safe, but please please please stand up if there’s any way you can.

A thing which has apparently been happening in Britain (which I can’t vouch for as I’m not there anymore) that is potentially useful is that people who support people who are immigrants/muslims/people other than cis-white-het are wearing a safety pin on their clothing / bag / backpacks to indicate that they are a person who can be trusted and gone to in the event of problems.

xdaringdamselx:

BOOKS. BUY LOTS OF BOOKS.

This is a good suggestion in the best of times, but I’d particularly like to extend the suggestion now.

Buy books detailing everything important in our pasts: black history and culture, Muslim history and culture, Latinx history and culture, LGBTQ+ history and culture, Jewish history and culture, feminist history, labor and organizing and activism history, science texts, everything. I would suggest hard copies, and if possible, multiple copies to share. Don’t let anybody erase or alter the past. Never let a moment of it be forgotten or revised or washed away. Hold onto it, and hoard it like treasure.

And grow your wealth in this form, too–write your own histories, document and detail things if you can. Don’t let them change the present, and don’t let them normalize any of this shit. Write things down, remember them, and keep shouting to the heavens–we won’t be forgotten and kept down.

And buy lots of fiction from those same groups as well! Fantasy breeds hope, and we’re gonna need a lot of hope in our hearts, and a place to escape to when things get rough.

I am just… DEEPLY CONCERNED about the kind of people soon to be in charge, the people who want so desperately and direly to crush all of us underneath their heels and stamp us out, and have made no secret of it. All too often, that kind of shit starts with a controlling of the story and the press, and sometimes even worse. And that walking hairclog has made no secret of how he wants the story to be told.

So extend your library. Just in case. Stay knowledgeable and clever and wise.

chthonicserpent:

kaijutegu:

jezebelxx:

littlefroggies:

I try not to get political on my art blog, but I am gonna share this sentiment from my twitter.

It’s nice to hear “Fuck Trump” but piling all hate on him is misguided, Trump is not the only person who should be factored into protests, impeachment and human rights lawsuits: his team DEFENDED him and ENABLED him.

There are a lot of people who either played down, ignored or supported his conduct

Fact is, if Trumps impeached, all the people who helped his campaign will flip and agree and chastise him, cuz it’ll make them look noble, which they would LOVE, they get to sweep house and senate, have Pence be president, and pretend they’re on our side. “We hate Trump too, friends! We agree, he’s a bad man, let us fix his mess for you.” 

Think about it, anyone on his team right now looks really good by comparison to him. People who’re just as bigoted and heartless.

Do not forget that Vice President Pence is poised and ready to help anti-women and anti-LGBT legislation roll out and take away 50~ years of human rights progress. [source] And he just sat back and watched Trump be Trump, cuz all he cares about is getting his foot in the door – and we all just held it open for him and welcomed him inside. Slam it on his stupid foot, friends. Fact is, Pence is a hateful bigot, but he looks really good superficially next to Trump.

If we’re gonna support lawsuits for human rights violations, impeachments, etc, we can’t fixate on Trump alone. A lot of people made Trump happen via complacency and lies, with smiles on their faces.

Not My President… Not My Vice President.

Note: I genuinely don’t have time for debates or arguments on Tumblr even on my good days, so sorry if you wanted to engage me about this, even if you agree with me. I’m not ignoring people (unless, you know, insults), I just can’t give this more time. I have to get back to work and stuff.

Mike pence said literally that “cigarettes do not cause death.” He wants to fund gay conversion therapy. He is the literal embodiment of Satan.

Mike Pence caused an HIV crisis in 2015. In an age of STD tests and anti-retrovirals, Mike Pence’s attack on Planned Parenthood (meaning that in rural areas, there very often weren’t any places to get STD tests- the HIV wasn’t actually spread through sexual contact as much as it was injecting drugs- but no PP access meant no testing that could pick up on HIV) caused an actual HIV crisis. 

And his response? “I’ll pray for them.”

Later, he did authorize a needle exchange, but his first response wasn’t “I’ll take actual legislative action because holy shit, people are dying,” but “I’ll pray for them.”

Pence and Trump are two very different kinds of dangers. I want to stop the political posting and just go back to my regular blogging, but I grew up in Indiana. I’ve seen what Pence’s terrible decisions have done to my friends and family, and as bad as a Trump presidency’s going to be, a Pence presidency might actually be worse.

Pence is what I was afraid Cruz would be.