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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What it’s like to watch someone you love die of covid over WhatsApp: A Do-your-own-risk-assessment Thread:
1. First you think it’s going to be ok. You call, you laugh, you make sure they ate the meat pie you sent over. Total mild case, all good. You go to your zoom call on corporate spending
2. They get a little fever. Still good. Eating. They assure you they are grand. They took a tylenol. You do the grocery shopping and go to a spin class