my coworkers, all of whom are white Christian women, said today that they think ANYONE of Palestinian descent should be deported to Gaza and then have bombs dropped on them.
They don’t know I’m Palestinian. I’m fucking terrified. We don’t have HR. I can’t lose my job. It’s crazy to me that they can spout genocidal bullshit but if I so much as mention my ethnicity they may turn on me and hate me.
I’m a patient care coordinator at a pulmonary practice. All I want to do is make sure my patients get the care they need and deserve. I’m the only care coordinator in my office. I’m great at my job. But it was so hard to focus today knowing that if my coworkers knew about one of the biggest aspects of my identity - one of the things about myself about which I am the most proud - they would stop seeing me as a person.
Fuck off with the bothsidesism. With the whataboutism. This is what the mass of propaganda and lies and anti-Arabism being spread in the media do. And I’m terrified.
This is what our media and our government is trying to do to us. We can’t afford to believe that the people in Gaza deserve the genocide that is happening to them. There are children being murdered. Why is it never a serious point of discussion when it’s brown children? It was never worth doing anything for the Latine kids at the US border. It’s not a “big deal” when it’s black kids getting shot by cops. Just look the other way. Why do we not afford Palestinian children a childhood? Why are Americans missing a sense of the basic humanity of the Palestinian people? I refuse to be gaslit by this president and by the Israeli government. I’ve started contributing to medical aid for Palestine and seriously need to start calling my senators and representatives. This will not stand.
