Kamusha

After reevaluating things I think I need to take a step back. My mental health was already not great with all the shit happening in Florida, and it took a huge dive at the beginning of the summer when I lost my job for being trans. There's so many users on here that I love and respect, but sometimes it's hard being part of a community where one of the most celebrated members has openly stated that he does not think trans women should be viewed as women. And as a trans woman I often feel invisible and unseen, and it hurts to have SBL continually ignore me after coming out as trans. It just reminds me how little regard so many people have for trans people. I already deal with that so much of that in real life, why subject myself to even more of that? I used to consider him a friend and it's sad to lose a friend to transphobia. Sometimes coming on here is like reopening old wounds. I need to heal. Even in his own thread where SBL call me out he's still ignoring me because he's a transphobe. He claims to be against bigotry but is unable to see the bigotry in his own heart. I love those who have shown me care and support this year. So please don't take offense that I must take a hiatus to focus on myself and my mental health.

You're the one sticking your nose in matters that does not concern you. I think you secretly enjoy it.

Joe Wurzelbacher, known as 'Joe the Plumber' in 2008 election, dies at 49 - BNO News BNONEWS.COM Joe Wurzelbacher, the Ohio man who became well-known as “Joe the Plumber” after questioning Barack Obama about his tax plan during the 2008 election...

It doesn’t? Maybe he doesn’t think about or care about me but I actually care about him. Hope he’s doing okay.

There's actually a lot about SBL that I really like which is why his anti trans comments and ignoring of me since returning here has really hurt me. And before I came out he seemed to really like me but now apparently never thinks of me at all. I guess I'm just that worthless to him. "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel

Nope, just the transphobes. Plenty of cool people out there.

I don’t tag you because what’s the point. You‘ve ignored me ever since I’ve returned to this board earlier this year. Given your previous anti trans remarks I can only make assumptions as to why.

DeSantis went to speak at a vigil here in Jacksonville and was heckled. One of the event organizers took the mic and told the crowd to keep politics out of it. Sorry, but if you wanted to keep politics out of it you never would have allowed him to the event. Him being there is political.

The media really doesn’t know how to call a white supremacist a white supremacist.

I get that but they’ve been promoting the movie for 7 months and will have to restart the same promotional push again leading up to March. That’s a lot of money to spend on promotion. They are also giving up a six week IMAX run by moving it to next year. I forgot Zendaya was in this one because she was barely in pt 1 so I agree that her promoting the movie would be an important asset. I guess there’s no easy way out of this.

Remember a few months ago when NAACP issued a travel advisory for Florida and someone on here argued it was politically motivated and that it’s still safe to travel here? I remember. The Florida National Socialists group has been experiencing an increase in recruitment because of the drag queen hysteria. They projected a swastika onto a building in downtown Jacksonville. My friend has seen flyers that were distributed in his neighborhood. Other hateful messages have been seen hanging from highway overpasses. This isn’t an isolated incident. It’s a growing problem and shouldn’t be ignored. In Florida, far-right groups look to seize the moment WWW.NPR.ORG A far-right group in Jacksonville, Fla., has been regularly projecting hate symbols onto downtown buildings. Groups like this...

This happened like five minutes away from the school I taught at last year. Really hope none of the kids or faculty were there. Goddamn this is so heartbreaking.

I’m no expert but this feels like a bad business move made out of spite and pettiness.

I mean districts were already preemptively pulling books that could be complained about so as far as I know these complaints were either during or after the fact. My district banned 176 books last year, most of them featuring black and LGBT themes. When I taught middle school English I had to remove my entire classroom library to have each book evaluated.

Bomb threat causes library evacuation after anti-trans activist Riley Gaines attacked it online WWW.LGBTQNATION.COM Now she's threatening to sue Pink News for reporting on it...

All pets in heaven will be spayed and neutered.

For my mental health I haven’t been following the GOP candidates super closely so I had to Google this to make sure it wasn’t a joke. Holy fucking shit, the party just keeps getting worse and worse.

There are different degrees of horror too. I can’t fully fathom what it’s like to live in a country under late stage Nazism, but I know what it’s like to live in a country where one party is openly calling for the eradication of people like me. It’s horrifying, and what’s even more horrifying is how many people I thought were friends are willing to be silent or even downplay our fear over the use of genocidal language actively being used against us.

You don’t have to completely understand what someone is feeling to have empathy. It just means you are actively trying to put yourself in their shoes. As a white person I don’t know what it’s like to experience racism but I know what it’s like to be discriminated against or feel like my life has less inherit value so I use my experience to build empathy towards other marginalized groups even if I am not part of those groups personally.

He was unbanned pretty quickly after Elon bought Twitter but said he would rather post on Truth instead.

I’m not sure how what I said was wrong. I said he wasn’t gonna empathize with the business owner. Has he ever shown empathy with the LGBT community after a violent attack? I’ve seen him defend SCOTUS when our rights were taken away, downplay the fears that we have over Florida, defend a business for refusing to serve gay customers, and downplay the news when the governor of Texas said he was gonna separate trans kids from their parents, but I don’t think I’ve seen him show sympathy when there’s LGBT violence or violent rhetoric being used against us.

I’m so shocked I nearly dropped my bong.

For the record I don't think SBL supports violence against LGBT people but I don't think he has empathy for us either. He recently said that it's arrogant to have empathy and I'm like no shit you think that lol

My neighbor with the All Lives Matter bumper sticker claims to abhor all violence too.