In a private Instagram group chat, confessed school shooter Nikolas Cruz repeatedly espoused racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views and displayed an obsession with violence and guns.
In a private Instagram group chat, confessed school shooter Nikolas Cruz repeatedly espoused racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views and displayed an obsession with violence and guns.
Cruz said he hated black people simply because they were black; Cruz hated Jews because he believed they wanted to destroy the world.After one member expressed hatred for gay people, Cruz agreed, saying, “Shoot them in the back of head.”
White women drew Cruz’s hatred as well, specifically those in interracial relationships, whom he referred to repeatedly as traitors.
The school in question was also 40% Jewish in population, and seven of the victims were Jews. This crime was racist, sexist, and antisemitic both in intent and in outcome.
Watch the news ignore this in favour of saying he was “Mentally Ill”
A racist, misogynistic anti-semite who was indoctrinated and trained by a white supremacist terrorist organisation being allowed to exist and operate within the United States
But no he’s a white guy so that means that he was “Mentally Ill”
the fact that a school shooting survivor has to tell the president of the united states to do something really shows how fucked up the government’s priorities are
Emma Gonzalez directly called out Trump, the GOP, and the NRA for enabling the murder of children.
Oliver Willis at Shareblue:
A Florida teenager who survived the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, issued a rousing call to action at a rally against gun violence.
Emma Gonzalez declared that the shooting at her school should be “the last mass shooting.”
And she responded directly to Trump’s tweet, which blamed students at the school for not reporting on the shooter’s behavior before the event.
“We did,” Gonzalez said, “time and time again, since he was in middle school.”
“We need to pay attention to the fact that this isn’t just a mental health issue,” she continued. “He wouldn’t have harmed that many students with a knife.”
“How about we stop blaming the victims for something that was the shooter’s fault?” she demanded, and called out those who do deserve to shoulder that blame.
“[The people] who let him buy the guns in the first place. Those at the gun shows. The people who encouraged him to buy accessories for his guns to make them fully automatic. The people who didn’t take them away from him when they knew that he expressed homicidal tendencies. And I am not talking about the FBI. I am talking about the people that he lived with, I’m talking about the neighbors who saw him outside holding guns.”
And Gonzalez again did not let Trump’s responsibility go unremarked upon
“If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy, and how it should never have happened, and maintain telling us that nothing is going to be done about it, I’m going to happily ask him I’m going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association.”
Gonzalez then called attention to the $30 million spent by the NRA in support of Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and how that translates onto each life lost to gun violence.
“That comes out to being $5800. Is that how much these people are worth to you, Trump?” She asked.
“To every politician who has taken donations from the NRA: Shame on you!”
The crowd erupted into a loud chant, echoing her cry: “Shame on you!”
Emma Gonzalez and her Florida community are not allowing Trump, the Republican Party, or the NRA to intimidate them into silence. They are speaking up to defend their families, and shaming those who enable this epidemic of violence.
The video of the full speech by Emma Gonzalez, via CNN’s YouTube:
Everyone who loves this post as much as I do will be very happy to know these two amazing girls are still doing good and just celebrated their two year anniversary back in September. :3
If you had asked me what my favorite color was fifteen years ago I'd have said 'black' cause I was a super angsty goth teen. If you had asked me what my favorite color was ten years ago I'd have said 'blue, or maybe red, I guess,' cause I didn't really know myself and I was uncomfortable in my skin. If you had asked me what my favorite color was five years ago I'd have said 'dark red,' cause I was in the depths of depression and I felt like it was the only color that fit me. If you ask me what my favorite color is today, I'll tell you 'hot pink motherfucker!' with a smile on my face cause I'm a butch trans woman and I like pink and that's okay. Like whatever you like, and don't apologize. Have a nice day.
I once tried to explain depression to someone as like if one day you gradually started to lose both your sense of taste and your ability to feel full. And you don’t know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying. You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there is no pay off. You just know it will taste like mashed potatoes. You just know you will still be hungry. So you stop bothering with seasonings. Then you stop bothering to use ingredients you used to like. Then you start to wonder what the point of eating is because there is no payoff. You still feel hungry and you’re sick of the taste and you don’t know if you will ever enjoy food again and you don’t know why this is happening.
If someone comes up to you in this scenario and says, “Well have you tried spicing your food? Using different ingredients? Eating foods you used to love?” It isn’t necessarily helpful because the reason you stopped doing all that in the first place is that everything…tasted…like mashed…potatoes.
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You’re out with the girls for the first time and you feel it. The apprehension. Suddenly you’re convinced everyone’s eyes are on you. You retreat to the bathroom and stare yourself down in the mirror.
It’s all in your head, you tell yourself. No one is staring.
And then she walks in. She doesn’t flinch. She doesn’t do a double-take. She just fixes her lipstick.
It’s just the two of you.
She fluffs her hair and flashes you a smile and a “love that dress” compliment before walking on out.
Suddenly the confidence is back. You look yourself in the mirror again.
YEAH, this IS a great dress, and I DO look amazing. I am a queen. No, I’m THE queen, and I’m here to conquer.
You walk out of the bathroom, head held high, to rejoin your friends.
And you feel it. All eyes are on you. And this confidence you’re feeling? RADIATES.
pre-e trans lesbians and never-e trans lesbians are beautiful, brave and valued members of the lesbian community.
trans lesbians with deep voices? amazing
trans lesbians who shave every day? Iconic
trans lesbians who have facial hair and love it? worth so much
trans lesbians who are muscular? deserve the world
the validity of a woman’s lesbian identity is not dependent on her transition status, nor is it dependent on presenting in a certain way – your love of women is powerful.
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