Open Letter to Anti-War Trump Supporters

Zarna Joshi
8 min readJan 12, 2021
By DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jette Carr

*Trigger Warning* mention of rape, child abuse, and police brutality

Dear Anti-War Trump Supporters:

I address this letter to you because I have a strange feeling that you might want to hear what I have to say.

I think I understand some of what you’re feeling right now. You are outraged at the corruption in this country. You see election fraud, censorship, the crumbling of free speech, and you’re appalled at what this nation has become. You can’t believe how easy it is for the system to silence and dismiss you, to write you off as not-worthy of an opinion.

It’s easy, isn’t it, for the system to totally dismiss an individual’s opinion? To strangle independent voices and dissent, even though a healthy democracy thrives on dissent and debate? It’s happening all around us and now it’s happening to you.

Did any of you consider this when stalkers and cyber bullies (many of whom were Trump supporters) came to silence me? I was censored* on social media and Facebook banned me for months at a time. I could do nothing about it. Did you think about free speech when other Black and brown women were censored and silenced on social media by racist Facebook policies and right wing trolls? Did you raise your voice in defense of the First Amendment? Did you say “I may…

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Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog