THAT LAST LINE. In danger of being unhoused? Medical bankruptcy? Underfunded local schools? Horrific local "tough on crime" laws? Quite literally: Bigots. - ThreadSky

ironspike.bsky.social • 27 days ago

THAT LAST LINE.

In danger of being unhoused? Medical bankruptcy? Underfunded local schools? Horrific local "tough on crime" laws?

Quite literally: Bigots.

Reposted from Gail Simone

I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash.

None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.

But a LOT are caused by bigots.

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fingertrapt.bsky.social•27 days ago

Why we don't have Healthcare and why communism is a dirty word. Just look at Paul Robeson.

ironspike.bsky.social•27 days ago

This nation is packed with people who have decided that their suffering, or the non-zero threat of possible future suffering, is bearable, so long as brown and black people might suffer MORE.

saltzman.bsky.social•27 days ago

Evergreen unfortunately

robotlyra.bsky.social•27 days ago

I know this country's always been racist, it's built into its structure, but I feel like I witnessed the exact moment when folks decided to tear everything apart cuz a black guy managed to ascend to its symbolically highest post. It's like seeing the exact cell division where cancer metastasizes.

nutshellgulag.bsky.social•27 days ago

It drives me bonkers how true that is. It's so short-sightedly malicious, and it's driven SO much of everything in this nation.

mikehendrickse.bsky.social•27 days ago

This could easily be about the UK. I only realised it wasn’t when you mentioned medical bankruptcy (we don’t have that worry, yet). But I fear many of my countrymen would accept it, if it caused more pain to brown people. 💔

tsumibito13.bsky.social•27 days ago

And rich people who know that the status quo that benefits them won't change as long as there is an underclass that poor white people can look at and say, "well I'm doing better than the black family down the street so things don't need to change."

brentosaur.bsky.social•27 days ago

There’s no problem bigots aren’t willing to make worse for themselves so long as someone else is suffering more.

emilgson.bsky.social•27 days ago

I mean that is exactly why your medical system is so fucked yo compared to literally all other countries. None have adopted America ways in this regard. None !

emilgson.bsky.social•27 days ago

But there is still an ingrained thing in the American psyche that tells you you are exceptions and not some and all failures you do is because of you . I see this in schools here in culture.

emilgson.bsky.social•27 days ago

But it also means you guys don’t actually give a flying fuck about the world at large. Like you are incapable of choosing lesser evils because of your own thinking and because you don’t think about other people and the world at large

emilgson.bsky.social•27 days ago

Like I know your election system sucks but it is your system and you gsn either work to violently change it or adhere to it . You can’t pussy foot around because it has global consequences and national obesity as well

777nocomment.bsky.social•27 days ago

its the American way

heroesofcrash.bsky.social•27 days ago

I usually say most of our problems are caused by billionaires, but the more I hear from Musk and Trump, the more I think the venn diagram of bigots and billionaires has the cicle representing the former swallowing the one representing the latter.

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