being a queer german person and seeing the news fail to verbalise that the CSD attack in berlin was motivated by homophobia feels really crazy. i don't give a fuck where this person is from, the person who did this was homophobic and wanted us dead, and that is what we should be talking about. extremism has become far too normalised in this country and beyond. for one fucking second, talk about how normalised homophobia and is, talk about what a sad day it is for queer folks, about how we deserve to feel safe and that homophobia has no place in this country. can you actually care about us for once stop using us to fuel your islamophobia or hatred of immigrants.
i have been struggling how to say this since it happened. when my mom heard it on the news this morning her first move was to complain about how “that guy will be celebrated in his islamist circle for being a fighter for god now.” and it’s just so terrible to hear your own mother who claims to be fairly leftist (though not nearly as much as she thinks) immediately jump to islamophobia instead of recognizing that this was a homophobic attack and that blaming muslims for everything terrible that happens here just makes it worse for all of us. of course the radio spent all day emphasizing this guy was “islamist”, and did not once pause to talk about the motive, the queer hate, how we should be focusing on the continued fight for our existence and not giving right parties more fuel for their fire. i don’t care about islamists who you claim have been responsible for everything bad since before i was born. i care about the queer woman who died for daring to be out and proud and in a crowd most people assumed would be relatively safe. shame on this country.
