marjaerwin

There has been an ongoing epidemic of violence against lgbt people. I know this. I've been bashed for being different; people are getting bashed, raped, and killed, for being lgbt. This has been especially severe in the District of Columbia: http://dctranscoalition.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/todays-dc-council-hearing-on-hate-crimes/

Peter Sprigg, a researcher for the Family Research Council, has called for violence against lgbt people, including criminalization of lesbian and gay people.

Richard Floyd, a Tenessee politician, has called for violence against lgbt people, including criminalization and murder of trans people.

And the Family Research Council has also opposed resolutions condemning the "Kill the Gays" bill in Uganda. [Update: Also, Tony Perkins has defended the "Kill the Gays" bill: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/tony-perkins-in-2010-said-ugandas-kill-the-gays-bill-upholds-moral-conduct/politics/2012/08/17/46846 ]

So at times the Family Research Council has called for violence against lgbt people, and has opposed calls to end the violence against lgbt people, in a climate where lgbt people face ongoing violence, discrimination, and threats from politicians.

P.S. Now they are threatening to sue the Southern Poverty Law Center for classifying them as a hate group, because they think the classification may have contributed to one act of violence against them. By that standard, they would open themselves to being sued for demonizing lgbt people, because their demonization has contributed to uncounted acts of violence against us.

P.P.S. And calling out hate is not calling for violence. If you can't tell the difference, you need help.

I have yet to see any coherent explanation of why someone should support the accursed institutions. I don't expect to. All borders are tools of the ruling class.

The most common reason people support anti-immigrant policies seems to be because they are racial/national supremacists. It's no secret that many anti-immigrant groups, such as AmRen, are neo-Nazi front groups, and the Arizona law was written by neo-Nazis and their allies. And that's where the deliberately-dehumanizing rhetoric ['Untermenchsen,' 'anchor babies,' etc.] comes from.

The next most common reason seems to be authoritarianism. Many people think other people should need permission from the ruling class to exercise basic human rights such as speech or travel. Maybe that's where this obsession with whether someone followed the right procedures and fits within the quotas.

The next most common reason seems to be, as I'd mentioned above, the belief that there is some morally-justifiable reason to treat people born on the other side of some border differently from people born on the same side of that border. But how could there be?

And that leaves aside the problem that I would be collateral damage from most documentation-based 'solutions' to the nonproblem.

It's hard. Some beatings, some stuff I'd rather not talk about, a death in the family, and frequent reminders that I don't control my own life have sucked all the joy out of my own life.

P.S. I've had good days and bad in the past three weeks. I'm triggered now, but on the whole I'm doing better these days than I was then. I've got a better idea too, of what keeps bringing me back to the beatings, and the other stuff I've survived, and the fear. Maybe I can work through it after all. Maybe it will start getting better instead of worse.