Orion Bailey
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I’ve never bought into that.
Please do correct me if I’m wrong, but you’re a white male and probably have never faced the ugliness of racism. You haven’t a clue how devastating for a kid to be told he’s inferior because of the color of his skin, how dark his hair is, or “why he looks all Chinese.” You’ve never been told to go back to your country to be with “your own kind.” You’ve never felt the pain those words cut into your soul. I have. I’ve been punched in the face and I’ve forgotten when or how, but I’ve never forgotten those words.
Say shit to me, I’ll probably walk away. Say shit to my kids, and I’ll give you a chance to stop. If you don’t stop, one of us will have a hard time chewing food for several days.
Right or wrong… who the fuck knows, but it’s necessary.
Fuck racists, and fuck those defending them.
I get it. I mean i understand the emotion and rage that would be inevitable.
But i grew up as a minority in my own neighborhood until highschool, even being a white male, so its not as if im completely ignorant of all this.
Ive out my life at risk in more than one occasion standing up for what i think is right in certain situations. Ive.. i don't need to go into details but suffice it to say i have laid my life on the line to help more than one person in danger due to bigotry or sexism.
but the reason why is but into the sticks and stones because humans spent centuries breaking free from communist/dictatorship rule that suppressed or muted the voice of the opposition.
Freedom of speech is at the foundation of humanity. The moment we start telling people what they can and cant say, we have lost our freedom and it will domino effect to all other freedoms.
take away the voice and then there is no way for humans to protest unjust acts.
what twitter is doing right now is setting a president for a new wave of censorship we spent centuries fighting and giving our lives for, as humans of all race and color to be free to think, feel and say what we please.
I dont disagree that its disgusting, evil and just plain idiotic how the Trump has used social media as his personal pied piper piccolo.
But the moment we shit that down we pace a path for others to also be shut down.
Now i also know the internet is still figuring out its legalities and limits, but this is freedom to the core we are talking about.
And unfortunately it cant stop with racist or bigoted comments as disgusting as they may be.
the moment they are forcibly muted it will turn much worse because now they have open it up to also have it happen back to them if the other side regains power. Its a sign of the beginning of the end in my opinion.
If the freedoms of america are taken over by a communist style of censorship, we are done for. We will become the next nazi germany.