I am so fucking upset not just about the election but the ignorant people, love-lighters and do-gooders who are saying this is a wake-up call to find commonality. To understand their motivations. To see where they are coming from.
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
My Grandmother, Matilde Weis and my Grandfather, Alfred Weis, did not have time to try and understand the “motivations” of the Nazis. They did not have the luxury of time to search for “compassion” for the people who were murdering our relatives. They could not take “time out” or “pause” to see what good might come from this. They didn’t own Bitcoin.
They took my 12-year-old father, Rudy Weis, and got themselves on a ship, on one of the very last ships to America. The last 10,000 Jews the US Government was allowing into America. 10,000 Jews in 1938 to New York harbor. Give me your huddled masses yearning to be free.
You have no idea what’s coming, people. How fucking stupid are we? How are we not educated? I am one generation away from the Holocaust. MY FATHER was born into a democracy in beautiful country, full of immigrants and Jews (we go so far back in Germany that I have no other DNA beyond that). He was born in a democracy. Do you see that? We were born in a democracy. His ended. Ours just ended. How do you not see this? My father died in 1996, and I’m so happy he is not here to see a repeat of this in his own lifetime.
My house is full of immigrants. Our housekeepers, our contractors. Our helpers. I am so scared for them. I am scared for me. I am fucking freaked out for all of us. Women. Immigrants. Migrants. Homosexuals. Transexuals. Arabs. Jews. Hispanics. Blacks. Natives. Anyone who is “other” then those accepted by the Republican party. God help you if you have been raped by your Uncle. Except there is no god so you are totally fucked.
Yes. I’m hopeless, angry, scared. I began my application for German Citizenship earlier this year. How ironic is that? They are happy to have me back.
So please, educate yourselves. I have seen this movie and I know how it ends.
Susan
This showed up on my Facebook today in regards to this post and I just love everything about it:
Susan I’m right there with you. The spiritual bypassing that is showing up all over FB is sickening. It’s outrageous. There’s nothing spiritually enlightened about romanticizing racism, misogyny, and homophobia with phrases like “we need to see what has to get addressed in order to heal it”. This administration is has laid out a clear agenda that puts many of us at risk, and no truly spiritual person is going to be celebrating that or gaslighting suffering people with “let’s all just love one another”. When I’m facing a reality where I have 3 months to make plans for the safety of myself and my family, I have zero obligation to try and make nice with the people who caused this. My spiritual practices involve witnessing reality and consciously showing up to it, as well as holding people accountable for their actions. I have zero interest in hiding from reality in some kind of spiritual bypassing story, and it’s disheartening to see how many folks are not only doing that as their own coping mechanism but actively shaming others for not going along.
I agree with you completely, Susan. Today was exhausting, traumatic, and frightening.