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Be Safe: a "political" journal
9 years ago
I know some people are choosing to leave politics off of FA, and I respect that, but this is about more than "politics".
This morning I have spoken to 2 people whose friends had to go pick up their (Asian and Latinx) kids from school yesterday because they were being bullied and harassed by their classmates, and spoken to 2 women and heard about 1 (Black, Latina, white) who have been approached with slurs and insults from strange men in the last 2 days.* This is just in my department in my university.
Things are scary and rocky right now. People feel like they have permission/validation to say and do unacceptable things, because “the president does it”. Be safe.
*the only good news about this is that all 3 of those women struck those men in the face and were promptly left alone
This morning I have spoken to 2 people whose friends had to go pick up their (Asian and Latinx) kids from school yesterday because they were being bullied and harassed by their classmates, and spoken to 2 women and heard about 1 (Black, Latina, white) who have been approached with slurs and insults from strange men in the last 2 days.* This is just in my department in my university.
Things are scary and rocky right now. People feel like they have permission/validation to say and do unacceptable things, because “the president does it”. Be safe.
*the only good news about this is that all 3 of those women struck those men in the face and were promptly left alone
