Treating us like a monolith ignores the millions of Americans who have dedicated themselves to bringing this beast down, most of us long before Trump ever took public office, some at great personal risk and consequence. We don’t assume that all Europeans are jew-scapegoating islamophobe vassal dogs who will slavishly comply with a war in Iran despite being seriously threatened with military annexation by the US within the past year, despite the optics begging that assessment, despite being poked with this “Do something, Americans!” stick only now that you too have been made materially uncomfortable (Like I’m fuckin tired boss, I have been doing something continually since Occupy Wall St when I took my first pepper spray, before they were using the more exotic chemicals). We know that despite the failure of Europeans as a whole to stop fascism on their soil before it was too late (Several times now) that there are freedom fighters over there too who dedicate their life and safety to pushing progress, and we applaud them. Even though they don’t usually get shot at or lynched by cops or shipped to a cage in another country when they get close to their goals. We know that it would be an insult and an erasure to assess them by the failures of their societies.
Treating us like a monolith ignores the millions of Americans who have dedicated themselves to bringing this beast down, most of us long before Trump ever took public office, some at great personal risk and consequence. We don’t assume that all Europeans are jew-scapegoating islamophobe vassal dogs who will slavishly comply with a war in Iran despite being seriously threatened with military annexation by the US within the past year, despite the optics begging that assessment, despite being poked with this “Do something, Americans!” stick only now that you too have been made materially uncomfortable (Like I’m fuckin tired boss, I have been doing something continually since Occupy Wall St when I took my first pepper spray, before they were using the more exotic chemicals). We know that despite the failure of Europeans as a whole to stop fascism on their soil before it was too late (Several times now) that there are freedom fighters over there too who dedicate their life and safety to pushing progress, and we applaud them. Even though they don’t usually get shot at or lynched by cops or shipped to a cage in another country when they get close to their goals. We know that it would be an insult and an erasure to assess them by the failures of their societies.
If you were putting yourself at risk continually we’d know your name.