#election aftermath

what’s up I just wanna remind every single person here on tumblr dot com that the conversations surrounding white nationalists hatred of people of colour also need to include their hatred of people who are jewish (whether culturally, religiously, ‘ethnically’, whatever- however you come to your jewish identity), and they were chanting things like “JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US”, while also chanting racist things and homophobic things and xenophobic things, and that has to be part of the conversation, because antisemitism isn’t really something that we’re in conversation about nationally and in addition to the important conversations that are happening, and should be happening, confronting antisemitism must also be public and vocal

It's been true since before November but the openness and brazenness of Charlottesville made it absolutely unavoidable: this is line-in-the-sand time. This HAS to be a wake-up call. Stop with the euphemisms. Stop with mocking or ridiculing them. take them DEADLY seriously. They are murdering people in the streets. Call them WHAT THEY ARE: Nazis, Klansmen, white supremacists, and terrorists. If someone you know- your classmate, your old friend from high school, your uncle, your sister, your grandfather, your mom, your CHILD- ANYONE- cannot UNEQUIVOCALLY condemn Nazis, Klansmen, and white supremacists, you don't get to make excuses for them anymore. This isn't about politics: Ted Cruz, Orrin HATCH, condemned this. Anyone who can't is someone you're done with. The worst people in Nazi Germany, the scariest, were the every-day Nazis. The neighbours and shopkeepers and middle class Nazis who followed the rules and didn't speak up in the early days or as it got worse, who didn't take it seriously until it was too late, who didn't believe the tangible consequences would ever materialize. People who were hungry for structure. Law abiding citizens who didn't question the laws. Every single one of them was the person you see in the pharmacy line, the cashier at the grocery store, the driver of your Lyft. Everyday people with everyday complacencies just trying to go through their lives. And it was also the artists and liberals who didn't DO SOMETHING CONCRETE TO STOP IT when they could have. Who didn't take action and tell the world and the country and the hateful and the complacent what they refused to accept. There were good, brave people in Charlottesville who stood against racism and antisemitism and hatred. Some were injured, one was killed, but NOTHING those they protested against did to terrify and harm them will silence the resistance. I would rather go down fighting than live safely in a country where things like Charlottesville continue to happen, and escalate, and are reflected in policy and law. I'm willing to. And I will not go down easy. what I'm saying is... DRAW YOUR LINE IN THE SAND. I've drawn mine.