Bud, let me tell you something about words.
My dad, a Soviet Jew, was once called a racial slur by an NCO. After which he felt obliged to lay him out with a single punch. He then spent 2 years on guard duty in a Komi Republic penal county... (thread)
My dad, a Soviet Jew, was once called a racial slur by an NCO. After which he felt obliged to lay him out with a single punch. He then spent 2 years on guard duty in a Komi Republic penal county... (thread)
https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1361558818736513024
Dad wasn't a terribly nice guy, @DanCrenshawTX. For all I know, he may have gotten on the NCO's nerves something awful that day. But that word made him lose it. It opened the box of pain that he, a son of a Soviet Marine who went through Omaha Beach times 1000, couldn't handle...
The slur made him forget which country he was in, what consequences that country loved to heap on its insubordinate citizens and particularly how it reveled in doing this to his particular ethnic minority. That word sure as fuck made him unsafe, @DanCrenshawTX...
Now, you and I live in a country that prides itself on its freedom of speech, @DanCrenshawTX. So you are obviously entitled to say whatever pops into your head. But have ever been racially slurred or made unsafe for simply being born who you are? Ever been hated for being born?
Because unless you have (and people who look like you and have names like @DanCrenshawTX usually aren't in this country), you have no platform and no expertise to talk on the matter.
Especially as someone who has spent the last 4 years toting water for an actual fascist.
Especially as someone who has spent the last 4 years toting water for an actual fascist.
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