They want you to keep your head down. Good liberal,
we don’t want your voice, only your rights.
Women, we just want your body (if it’s shaven, waxed,
thin, plucked clean, quiet, appetizing) and to tell you
what goes in and out of it. Answer: I, consensual or
not, have permission. Planned Parenthood does not.
The coat hanger does not. Don’t destroy your body,
it’s the only thing about you we want.
Muslim people, it’s not that we hate you, and we
definitely don’t fear you. It’s just… well, you know
how you can be. (See: there’s extremists in every
religion, but you’re the only ones we’re going to
blame because you don’t look like us and we’re
going to claim to want inclusivity so if you could
not tell anybody about this conversation, that’d
be great.)
People of color, the urban youth, the walking target –
no, I mean gun, you saw they had a gun right? (If you
think gun means body and body means colored skin
which means enemy.) And hey, will you ever stop
blaming us for our ancestors? And hey, we’re never
going to stop with the false statistics. And hey, we’re
only going to give you credit when we need to fill up
our demographic pool.
LGBT people – we gave you marriage equality, what
more do you want? Just keep it behind closed doors.
Just don’t show your pride in public. Just, tone it
down a little, won’t you? It’s not that we don’t respect
you – it’s just, the bible, you know? It’s just, your
sinning might be contagious. Just – there’s only two
genders and you’re proof of something I can’t
understand so I know you must be wrong. (Because
if you can’t understand it, it’s a sin, it’s a nuance, it’s a
give-them-a-consolation-price-to-shut-them-up-would
-ya?)
Natives, this country may have been yours, but that
story paints us at the villain, and we can’t let our
superhero capes go to waste. We can’t let our kids
know that we killed (tortured / raped / massacred /
conquered) your people for this land and then gave
you some reservations to make you think you’d
won anything at all. (Your story may be the real one,
but hey, we’re America, and we can twist the story
in our favor no matter how many lies are tucked in
there.)
Lifting our head for the next four years is going to be
an act of rebellion. Bad liberal, we don’t want your
disgusting thoughts, we just want your votes.
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