Thread by @danielmkim

1/ If you’re a retired GOFO railing against socialists (hello? You benefited from that very thing while you wore the uniform you now shit on with the Breitbart letter), “illegals” stealing American jobs & driving down wages (hello again, find me a white boy who’ll wash dishes)...

2. Not to mention “elections that reflect the will of the people” (come on now, your guy lost bigly, let’s move on from this already), & (derp) “rule of law,” get the fuck over yourselves & look outside your vacuum sealed retirement bubbles for a moment.

3. Let me guess, all the retired admirals & generals who signed this “letter” posted by a “reporter” on a right wing “news” website are old white men. That wasn’t difficult to figure out, because that’s the demo that increasingly sees equal opportunity as a zero sum game.

4. Fuck that & fuck all of you sirs, people of color having the same rights as you ≠ you being stripped of yours. But you’ve never experienced discrimination, so how the cinnamon toast fuck would any of you know?

5. An officer I looked up to - until today - signed that letter, & I’m wrecked because this letter - I thought - wasn’t the man I knew. Au contraire. I’m still trying to wrap my head around it, because he was the fightingest officer I’d ever met.

6. I’m heartbroken that so many of these men, most of whom served honorably, would yell at the wind like this. Isn’t our force supposed to reflect society at large? And if this is the case, why can’t they accept that change can be both inevitable & positive?

7. The latent racism of the letter is what really kills me. It tells me that, no matter what I did under this officer I once revered, & whose coin I still have, I was just another enlisted chink to him. Not SGT Kim, a soldier he noticed once training his team.

8. Just a gook wearing a uniform that the general - in his heart of hearts - probably felt I shouldn’t be wearing in the first place. Fuck him. That coin is going into the East River tomorrow.

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