dabwax:
dabwax:
Just had a mutual I really respect on tiktok tell me mocking the Texans who suffered badly or died in the blizzard in 2021 is fine because fuck Texas and I truly might delete that app. I can’t deal. I knew more trans and queer folks in Denton Texas than I do in the blue state I’m in now, there were queer art markets constantly and a lot of diversity and compassion for the poor in a way that doesn’t exist in my liberal fucking city and all I ever hear is how Texans deserve to suffer, as if there aren’t thousands protesting constantly and participating in mutual aid and doing their best to survive in a deeply gerrymandered fascist state. Homeless people died, disabled and poor people who couldn’t prepare died. My partner and I lived in a food desert with no access to buyable water and no running water for eight days and I guess we fucking deserved it because she was born there and I got literally abandoned by my ex roommate at the start of covid and left with nothing there!!! Fuck all Texans no matter what!!! This is a rational and compassionate way to think!!!!
So this person doubled down and made my feelings about “white people finding anything to be upset about” so I’m gonna say this:
If you’re openly celebrating the suffering of the average Joe and Jill and Jam in fash southern states, you’re celebrating the suffering of thousands of people of color particularly black folks subject to extremely racist gerrymandering and profiling, the suffering of thousands of queer and trans folks who are fighting to survive under politicians who are trying to outlaw their existence, the suffering of disabled folks who are ignored out of existence or worse, the suffering of the impoverished who are intentionally left to die in mass climate events.
I don’t care how much you hate Florida or Texas. I’m from Virginia and live in New Mexico and Texas was still one of the most diverse places I lived with a ton of passionate folks fighting against fascism.
If you’re ready to throw out every citizen who is trapped under fascist rule, particularly the ones the fascists WANT gone, then congratulations! You’re supporting fascism! DeSantis isn’t harmed one bit by yall laughing at disasters in Florida but the poor folks who can’t leave absolutely can see you calling them stupid idiots who deserve their suffering 🤗