reserved seat in hell

As a queer woman, I have been receiving a wash of racist/prejudice commentary when I state “I don’t agree with bombing anyone”, even when I break that down to “I don’t agree with bombing Gaza/Israel/Lebanon/Syria/etc etc”.

It’s really telling to me that the group of people who are constantly attacking my character because I state this are also the people that are not the people who I repeatedly get told want to kill me for being white/western/gay/not Muslim/etc.

Let me repeat that in a different way. The people who I have been told to fear ARE NOT the ones who attack me when I say “no one should be bombed”. And that’s telling.

The entire world is infested with racist/prejudice bigots. My own country works tirelessly to limit my rights under the guise of “protection” and “godliness”. I completely disagree with the far-right movement in my own country, but I still would not support bombing those people who are members of that political group.

I believe in holding individuals accountable for their own actions, and I refuse to equate a government to their people when I know full damn well my government doesn’t represent me.

I also refuse to criticize the reactions of a organization without first critiquing the instigator of those actions. I refuse to repeat ideas about race as if they are scientific facts because race is a social construct created by European in the 19th century as ways to reason out their hatred for others. I refuse to allow anyone to excuse murder and colonization because they claim a book tells them it’s their right. I don’t give a fuck which book it is.