Post by prairiegarden on Nov 11, 2016 2:38:34 GMT -5
I guess this is a rant, it feels more like weeping than ranting though
It seems as though the upheaval a lot of people have been predicting for some time may be looming close; just read a thread The First Day and the stories of people's experiences are horrific.
Women quietly pumping gas for their car being approached by men openly discussing what they would like to do to them, one told by a man she had best choose her slave number soon, another that he thought he might like to shoot her, while actually waving a gun. Women on public transport having men try to grab their crotch, while other men laughed. Being told to take off their hijab and hang themselves with it, they are useless and nobody wants them around.
Women who come from deeply religious families being told by their mothers not to wear the hijab because it's just not safe to go out with it on.
One woman spoke of being approached by four men who harassed her to the point of one punching her; when she used her martial arts training to flatten him the others called the police who arrested HER and carted her off in handcuffs because the men said she had simply attacked the guy by herself for no reason.
So so many being verbally abused and told to " go back to where you came from you don't belong here and we don't want you" in any number of ways, usually with viciously abusive epithets. Huge graffiti saying black lives don't matter.
Children in kindergarten being told by other children they are going to have to go away and live behind a wall because they don't belong there... Kindergarten!!.. and the teachers unable or unwilling to reassure them. High schools ringing with chants and decorated with graffiti straight out of Nazi Germany, including the word "heil".
At at that point I stopped reading the thread, it was breaking my heart. So much thoughtless hate. Rabid animals with a perceived mandate to be as vicious, predatory and violent as they like. So much fear. So, so sad. And..I don't see any way at all that this can work out well. Nobody can bring back the 1960s, the jobs that have gone overseas or to robots are not coming back. The things which are being said and done now are not going to be forgotten or forgiven.
And..the ongoing protest at Standing Rock makes a mockery of Obama' s promise to the Native Americans ." I've got your back". What he didn't say but might as well have was the last bit, " in my sights". Even Bernie Sanders wrote an open letter to him saying he really needed to interfere with what is happening there. Obama's response was that he was watching it, sort of like a guy with a tourniquet watching a sliced artery pumping blood and saying, well maybe it will stop by itself, I'll give it a little time and see what happens.
I hope that I'm wrong, that somehow everything will magically work out but atm I can't see how. I saw a sign calling for Trump to be assassinated. It seems as though the U.S. is coming apart at the seams like a carcass bloated with putrifying gasses being poked with a sharp stick. So sad. Who knew the depth and scope of rage and hate festering away. And..so scary.
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It seems as though the upheaval a lot of people have been predicting for some time may be looming close; just read a thread The First Day and the stories of people's experiences are horrific.
Women quietly pumping gas for their car being approached by men openly discussing what they would like to do to them, one told by a man she had best choose her slave number soon, another that he thought he might like to shoot her, while actually waving a gun. Women on public transport having men try to grab their crotch, while other men laughed. Being told to take off their hijab and hang themselves with it, they are useless and nobody wants them around.
Women who come from deeply religious families being told by their mothers not to wear the hijab because it's just not safe to go out with it on.
One woman spoke of being approached by four men who harassed her to the point of one punching her; when she used her martial arts training to flatten him the others called the police who arrested HER and carted her off in handcuffs because the men said she had simply attacked the guy by herself for no reason.
So so many being verbally abused and told to " go back to where you came from you don't belong here and we don't want you" in any number of ways, usually with viciously abusive epithets. Huge graffiti saying black lives don't matter.
Children in kindergarten being told by other children they are going to have to go away and live behind a wall because they don't belong there... Kindergarten!!.. and the teachers unable or unwilling to reassure them. High schools ringing with chants and decorated with graffiti straight out of Nazi Germany, including the word "heil".
At at that point I stopped reading the thread, it was breaking my heart. So much thoughtless hate. Rabid animals with a perceived mandate to be as vicious, predatory and violent as they like. So much fear. So, so sad. And..I don't see any way at all that this can work out well. Nobody can bring back the 1960s, the jobs that have gone overseas or to robots are not coming back. The things which are being said and done now are not going to be forgotten or forgiven.
And..the ongoing protest at Standing Rock makes a mockery of Obama' s promise to the Native Americans ." I've got your back". What he didn't say but might as well have was the last bit, " in my sights". Even Bernie Sanders wrote an open letter to him saying he really needed to interfere with what is happening there. Obama's response was that he was watching it, sort of like a guy with a tourniquet watching a sliced artery pumping blood and saying, well maybe it will stop by itself, I'll give it a little time and see what happens.
I hope that I'm wrong, that somehow everything will magically work out but atm I can't see how. I saw a sign calling for Trump to be assassinated. It seems as though the U.S. is coming apart at the seams like a carcass bloated with putrifying gasses being poked with a sharp stick. So sad. Who knew the depth and scope of rage and hate festering away. And..so scary.
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