ever since melissa got fired i haven't been able to shut up. before that i was like postng things now and again like to be clear this is where is tand but not trying to get in too far cuz i didn't know if it was my plac.e and now ever since that i'm like just!! fuck this!!! if a woman of color can be out there getting fired from a major franchise for saying shit i will say shit endlessly over and over again. maybe the more we say the harder it'll be to fire us. i don't know. all i know is i can't not say anything. i'm losing friends, i'm losing colleagues, i'm losing opportunities but like they sure as fuck aren't ones i awnt!! and i know we all have learning curves and i know there's so much that isn't perfect about humanity but i truly don't understand how i have liberal friends and colleagues who were responsive during BLM who have recently educated themselves about racism, queer rights, women rights, etc, who may be any of those identities themselves, and can somehow still not wrap their heads around what it looks like when an opporessive government is trying to silence/kill anyone and everyone that gets in their way. i even litearlly got a "but those people are terrorists" from a liberal friend !!! with a link to a video of a woman listing their crimes. CHILDREN. CHILDRENS CRIMES. as if we haven't watched right here in america how easy it is for governments and police to turn people into criminals, as if we haven't talked at length about cycles of violence and how we end up with the racial divides we have, and how oppression leads to more anger and more anger leads to more "reasons" racists decide they have to oppress people. it's so BAFFLING to me (even though it shouldnt be) how quickly people forget everything they learned when it requires them to be uncomfortable for just one second. to look inside themselves. to unpack their own shit a little. how are we here? how are we doing this? how are the places we thought were safe suddenly so fucking unsafe? (yes i know this is also privilege) because of course they were unsafe. of course people who claimed to be woke were always going to be not quite there enough. so many people i trust, respect, etc are just silent or fucking wrong right now and it's mind blowing. idk how we come back from this as a community and an industry let alone the whole fucking country/world
