Things I, a white, straight, christian lady, have learned from the “freedom” convoy in Ottawa this week: A Thread...
1. I am free to do whatever I want. Literally anything. I can throw rocks at paramedics, I can piss in sacred spaces, I can record and share a video of how my white-ass blood is better than everyone else’s, and then lead a coup. People are cool with it.
2. I have so much freedom it nears on anarchy. I can steal from soup kitchens, shout racist comments at anyone I want to, block people from doing their jobs, without any repercussion.
3. I can say nothing and do nothing and continue to live without consequence. I can literally be a Nazi sympathizer and no one cares.
4. I can hide behind any cause I want (like, for example, a small group of truckers) and use their cause to forward mine, whatever it is. It doesn’t even matter, I can stampede anything I want, anytime.
5. I can deny science, spread misinformation, and not only will the majority stay silent but actual politicians (also white) will turn up and support me and my bullshit.
6. I can gather a group of people that look like me and spout any hurtful, untrue nonsense I want: worst case, we cause the police to join us/placate us because someone in our group is likely to be so violent and evil and connected that the police fear for loss of life
7. I can stand, straight faced, and tell other people that I am genuinely fighting for their freedom to eat a cheeseburger indoors, and in the next breath tell a brown guy born in Hamilton to go back to his own country.
8. I can verbally assault teenagers in their place of work for enforcing law and keep children from attending school and doctors from getting to work at a hospital. No one minds.
9. I can sit at home, saying nothing, because saying nothing suits me, while a someone who hangs a rainbow flag out front of their house has to listen to 3 days of air horn, not sleeping, having to clean actual human shit off their porch.
10. I can threaten death, 1943 deathcamp style, on the sitting Prime Minister. People barely look up from their Wordle.
11. I can call my momentary decent behaviour "peace", like Ted Bundy eating breakfast, or drifting off to sleep. People will see the fact that I’m not shooting anyone as a sign that I am not dangerous.
12. I can say nothing, do nothing, and still commit violence.
I didn't expect all this attention and can't possibly respond to every reply here, so I'll just say, I said what I said. We've known, haven't we. All this time. Shame on us. Please amplify the voices who've said it before me, much more eloquently, and a million times over
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