I am not your neighbour. I am not on your continent. Even if all of the world’s militaries combined to try and stop what is happening in the US, they still would not be able to match the might of your country’s military. What would you have me do? Focus so much on your pawblems that I ignore those of my actual neighbours?
My friend committed suicide. She hanged herself. I don’t know why. I hung out with her the day before she did it, and she seemed happy. She had plans for the future. I only found out weeks after she did it.
And I think if we didn’t have a worldwide rising tide of fascism coming from America, there would be less trans girls killing themselves. I don’t know your story, I don’t know if this means anything to you, but what I care about is creating a world my friend would have wanted to live in. Because I have trans friends all over the world, including in America, who are still alive and who need my help. They need everyone’s help.
And you think I’m American because I care about my American friends? Because I think of them the way people a hundred years ago thought of their neighbours? Because I have a sense of empathy and I’m worried about what the Americans are sending over here?
We have fucking proud boys in my city, counterprotesting left wing rallies. If you don’t care about that, and can’t imagine caring about it, then you’re either very white and very cisgender, or… I don’t have the words.
I am not your neighbour. I am not on your continent. Even if all of the world’s militaries combined to try and stop what is happening in the US, they still would not be able to match the might of your country’s military. What would you have me do? Focus so much on your pawblems that I ignore those of my actual neighbours?
My friend committed suicide. She hanged herself. I don’t know why. I hung out with her the day before she did it, and she seemed happy. She had plans for the future. I only found out weeks after she did it.
And I think if we didn’t have a worldwide rising tide of fascism coming from America, there would be less trans girls killing themselves. I don’t know your story, I don’t know if this means anything to you, but what I care about is creating a world my friend would have wanted to live in. Because I have trans friends all over the world, including in America, who are still alive and who need my help. They need everyone’s help.
And you think I’m American because I care about my American friends? Because I think of them the way people a hundred years ago thought of their neighbours? Because I have a sense of empathy and I’m worried about what the Americans are sending over here?
We have fucking proud boys in my city, counterprotesting left wing rallies. If you don’t care about that, and can’t imagine caring about it, then you’re either very white and very cisgender, or… I don’t have the words.
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I hope you keep that promise
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Not really how I read it, but that was just me.
It’s not a long comment, I’m not sure how else one might read it.
I read it as someone grieving their friend in maybe a way that I wouldn’t have done it
It is not grief to use the death of someone to try and win an argument.