Thread by @straczynski

The "death camps" won't materialize, so that kind of nonsense attends to itself. And sometimes labels are used to discount and sometimes to illuminate. There's a reason we don't tell a child a hot stove is a pillow. That said, let me say this: I will absolutely support your --

https://twitter.com/JanMSchroeder/status/1325276536535179265

-- point of view. You only have to do one thing. See, it's very easy to come in here, and suggest compassion for those who have not shown it themselves. It's for the most part a friendly room. It's also a safer room. So I will back your position 100% if you are willing --

-- to take this into the *other* room...to go into the right wing chatrooms and twitter feeds and say, in essence, yes, all you who deliberately didn't wear masks and helped kill tens of thousands of innocent people, you who supported caging children, scapegoating immigrants --

-- harassing members of the LGBTQ crowd, you who pointed guns at peaceful protesters, who carried tiki torches under Nazi banners, and rode around with Confederate flags while you rammed cars to show your displeasure with the campaign...you who have so thoroughly convinced --

-- yourselves that death camps are coming for you because you built them for others so that *must* be what the other side is thinking, you who spit on the faces of store owners who asked only that you wear a mask for their protection...to all of you, we hold out the olive --

-- branch of comity and friendship because we know that you're afraid, most of it fear of things that are never going to happen, like those death camps...but yes, you're afraid...afraid that there may come a time when someone in your family comes out as gay or transgender --

-- afraid that there may come a time when you can't do to women and minorities whatever you like, afraid that white folks may not be at the front of the line anymore, afraid that there may be legislation by people you hate -- because really, that's the core of it, hate --

-- you supported Trump and those like him because they struck out at the people you hate. You didn't really care about things like pro-life or justice, you just wanted someone out there who would keep hitting the people you hate. It's really that simple. And you're not --

-- getting your way now, for the first time in four years, and that makes you afraid, and we understand that. So yes, despite *all* of that, we are willing to embrace, to discuss, to be adults and be fair and proper and coddle and forgive...we ask only one thing in return.

And this is the moment, Jan, when you tell them that all they have to do is say "we were wrong to do those things, and we apologize." That is the beginning. That is where it starts because it *cannot* start any other way. Go into their feeds and chat rooms, rather than the --

-- relative safety of this one, and ask that of them.

Let me know what happens next.

If this request succeeds and the world turns, I will back your plea for compassion 100%.

But not before.