I'm fucking outraged that Trump has stopped people in fucking airports
How could you look at these people, these families, our brothers and sisters, SOMETIMES LITERALLY BUT ALWAYS FIGURATIVELY BECAUSE WE ARE THE SAME DAMN SPECIES, the same biological and genetic creature, and say no you can’t come onto MY patch of dirt?
Are we territorial animals now?
The people responsible for terrorist bombings are from HERE.
The people struggling to get away from violence and terror are NOT the people causing the violence and terror they’re running from.
And even if by some small chance they are, FUCK YOU, not all of them are.
We as a species…must choose to be BETTER than this.
Intolerance and discrimination did NOT work before.
Trump announced his stupid ban the same day we celebrated the remembrance of the HOLOCAUST.
You know, that time we ALSO rejected an oppressed group?
A group threatened by violence?
Tolerance and compassion.
Why are these two things America lacks?
Why can’t we see passed politics and see people in need of our help?
I’m devastated by this, I’m really hurt.
I can’t see these people as my enemy.
They are relatives. They’re our friends. They’re people we’ve emailed about our days, talked to on the phone and cursed those international charging fees with good natured barbs, they’re people we gave scholarships to, people we invited to the Oscars, people we want to know better, people with culture and values and foods and entertainment different than our own.
It makes us a stronger, wiser people to accept and love diversity in all of its forms, and it breaks my heart to see our fear destroying us.
Even Europeans aren’t able to come over without visas.
Even people who were APPROVED by the state department already, went through that difficult process, aren’t being allowed in.
This is utterly despicable.
How could you call yourself a human being if you support this?
Can you not see an inkling of yourself in the eyes of the tired mother and her child waiting in an airport to be let into a country that ALREADY said she was welcome?
Why is she no longer welcome?
Because a tyrant came into power and he makes all the rules now?
And even if you support the ban on immigrants…
Does it not scare you how easily he could do this?
That he has no legislative check, that we have no checks or balances to this system he’s begun, this rapid separation of the last remaining super power in the world from the rest of it?
We are stronger together than separated.
America is made up of immigrants.
The only non immigrants are the people America is trying to kill and silence, the people trying to fight the DAPL pipeline.
How could you look at what’s happening around you and say this is good.
Trump is at least doing more than Obama, haha- fuck you.
He fought congress tooth and nail and wasn’t able to fulfill his campaign promises because ya’ll wouldn’t LET him.
Why do I get the feeling trump isn’t going to?
And all of you extremists who think this ban is a good thing, those of you without compassion for any people other than yourselves, well, I guess that’s just fine with you.
Just as long as Coronas stay cheap and your gas prices don’t get too high and all your children can go to school with other cute little white kids with the cultural richness of a slice of wonder bread.
History will remember you as the people who did nothing.
You’ll forgive us, the people who saw the future we were robbed of by this mad man, for wanting something more and not being afraid to fight for it, even as the odds continue to stack against us.
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