Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: You Don’t Know What’s Like

Thursday, November 01, 2018

You Don’t Know What’s Like

For many non-trans people they have no idea the uncertainty running through the trans community. As I wrote yesterday the number of calls has increased on the trans suicide hotline since last week.

I received this blog comment from an Anonymous source…

Fear and HATE, Fear and HATE, Fear and HATE. Keep on pounding the drum

And I will.

You hide behind anonymity because it emboldened you.

The hate is coming from people like you; the hate is coming from those who are murdering us, the hate is coming from the Christian right want to put us back in the closet, the hate is coming from the Republicans who want to criminalize us, and the hate is coming from Trump who wants to erase us and it is that hate we fear.

Until you know what it is like to fear people who idolize Trump and send out bombs, shoot innocent grandparents as they peacefully shop in a grocery store, kill people in their place of worship.

I don’t who you are but let me guess… you are a white male and you follow the Trump cult. You believe “all lives matter,” you believe taking a knee at football game is wrong, you think marriage should be between Adam and Eve, and you are being persecuted by the left because we want our rights, but you claim you are not a racist or a homophobe.

Yes, I will continue “pounding the drum” until people like you crawl back into the swamp; until people feel safe again in their place of worship, feel safe again going grocery shopping, feel safe walking down the street.

1 comment:

Richard Nelson11/1/18, 10:29 AM
Yes, Yes, Yes, Keep pounding away. I will also, in support of all Trans people, and everyone who is under attack by the right and by the abhorrent monster in the white house and his circle of fascists. These are not the times to be silent.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers