Keep your rage
Jun. 26th, 2022 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdY'know all that frustration and rage you're feeling over the @GOP ripping away our rights, overturning #RoeVWade?
All that is what most of us queers have faced our entire lives. We're facing it again right now.
DON'T let it rule you, but DO hold onto it. You're gonna need it.
If there's such a thing as righteous rage, this is it. Some days, it will be the only thing that keeps you going.
(Ask POC around you about it. That's not my tale to tell - you don't get much whiter than Finnish, I mean, you do, but you gotta work at it - but it's real.)
I've dealt with these evangelical fundamentalist @GOP fucks for decades, and the first thing you've got to understand: there is no good faith from them, but it is demanded you demonstrate your own. And stick to it.
They'll demand "polite discourse and debate" even as they accuse you and yours of raping children to reproduce since "homosexuals can't reproduce on their own" - and proclaim you the villain if you even raise your voice about their blood libel.
There is no trick too dirty, and the only measure of truth is whether it serves the cause. They systematically lie, they systematically cheat, and they won't just bring a gun to a knife fight, they'll bring a gun to a debate, fire it, and then lie about that too.
Literally NOTHING the evangelical/fundamentalist @GOP say is in good faith. It's whatever noise fills the moment. If it's true, it's a coincidence, and if a lie had suited the moment better, they'd've lied.
I'm not saying this to be mean, I'm saying it because it's true.
And here's the kicker:
They enjoy this shit.
It's fun for them.
Because they enjoy power most of all, and the impunity to hurt others feels oh so very very good.
That's why you need this rage, why you need to keep it, not punish or scold yourself, not try to get over it, because that shit will not work.
What they want is their dominance, and your compliance and suffering. What they'll do to get it is anything.
Look, rage isn't good for you, I'm not pretending it is. I'm just saying that sometimes it's what you need, because righteous rage...
Rage is real good at helping you get through the hell they genuinely desire to rain down upon all of us.
Rage is motivating as fuck.
And I'd like to say there are a lot of better ways to get that motivation, because there are. But given what the queer community have gone through at the hands of the @GOP fundamentalist evangelical religious cult for my entire life, and how little cishets have cared...
...I can't say that I think these 'better angels' of motivation are enough. They've been AWOL far too long.
So there are times to be angry.
There are times in fact to be enraged.
We are in those times.
Keep your fury. You're gonna need it.
All that is what most of us queers have faced our entire lives. We're facing it again right now.
DON'T let it rule you, but DO hold onto it. You're gonna need it.
If there's such a thing as righteous rage, this is it. Some days, it will be the only thing that keeps you going.
(Ask POC around you about it. That's not my tale to tell - you don't get much whiter than Finnish, I mean, you do, but you gotta work at it - but it's real.)
I've dealt with these evangelical fundamentalist @GOP fucks for decades, and the first thing you've got to understand: there is no good faith from them, but it is demanded you demonstrate your own. And stick to it.
They'll demand "polite discourse and debate" even as they accuse you and yours of raping children to reproduce since "homosexuals can't reproduce on their own" - and proclaim you the villain if you even raise your voice about their blood libel.
There is no trick too dirty, and the only measure of truth is whether it serves the cause. They systematically lie, they systematically cheat, and they won't just bring a gun to a knife fight, they'll bring a gun to a debate, fire it, and then lie about that too.
Literally NOTHING the evangelical/fundamentalist @GOP say is in good faith. It's whatever noise fills the moment. If it's true, it's a coincidence, and if a lie had suited the moment better, they'd've lied.
I'm not saying this to be mean, I'm saying it because it's true.
And here's the kicker:
They enjoy this shit.
It's fun for them.
Because they enjoy power most of all, and the impunity to hurt others feels oh so very very good.
That's why you need this rage, why you need to keep it, not punish or scold yourself, not try to get over it, because that shit will not work.
What they want is their dominance, and your compliance and suffering. What they'll do to get it is anything.
Look, rage isn't good for you, I'm not pretending it is. I'm just saying that sometimes it's what you need, because righteous rage...
Rage is real good at helping you get through the hell they genuinely desire to rain down upon all of us.
Rage is motivating as fuck.
And I'd like to say there are a lot of better ways to get that motivation, because there are. But given what the queer community have gone through at the hands of the @GOP fundamentalist evangelical religious cult for my entire life, and how little cishets have cared...
...I can't say that I think these 'better angels' of motivation are enough. They've been AWOL far too long.
So there are times to be angry.
There are times in fact to be enraged.
We are in those times.
Keep your fury. You're gonna need it.
