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Open Letter to Anti-War Trump Supporters
*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 not agree with them but I’ll fight to defend their right to speak?”
I didn’t hear you then. I don’t hear you now. I don’t hear you uplifting the voices of Black people when they talk about police brutality. I don’t hear you speaking up for Black and brown survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence when they talk about who hurt them. I don’t hear you protesting social media platforms when they ban and de-platform countless anti-racist and anti-patriarchy organizers like myself. Where is your hatred of censorship then? Is the First Amendment not sacred when Black and brown people are the ones being silenced?
Have you asked yourself why you care so much when censorship happens to you but you don’t care when it happens to me and others like me? Ask yourself. Deep down, you know why. That means that you can’t possibly be shocked that at this point in time, so many in this country have zero compassion for your situation. You showed…
