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Customer tried to pay for a cops purchase. Cop had just walked in.
"Whatevef he gets is on me."
Cop has no idea.
Cop gets a soda and a bag of chips.
Walks out to his cruiser. Never even stops at the counter.
Customer standing there waiting with his card out.
"Oh."
Not sure who needs to be reminded of this but: PeeWee Herman was not arrested masturbating at a public theater. Not like you think.
He was at an adult theater (where masturbation is encouraged) and it was a sting operation targeting queers.
I remember a bully in high school. His friends grabbed me and he spit on me and called me a f*ggot.
I said "fuck you."
And what I remember most is how sincerely upset he got at that. Like he broke down, his face turned pink, his eyes got glassy with tears. He was so upset.
You ever notice how JKR never once in the history of ever discusses cis male violence against women? You read her twitter and *actual* issues women face daily are never once mentioned. She doesn't actually care about women's issues and never has. She's somewhat hostile to them.
He punched me after that but - I mean he was 14 and didn't know how to punch so it was totally ineffective.
But just how bad he was hurt by it stuck with me. Like he literally thought he could say anything but it was hurtful if I said something back and deserved to be punched.
This is a microcosm of what we deal with in systemic oppression. You and I see it as normal when someone says "you should die" to respond back in kind.
They don't see it that way. They see it as justification for their hate. You see it with "The tolerant left..." quotes.
I asked a guy for his ID once for a credit card transaction and he showed me his badge.
"What if you stole a cops wallet. Can I see your photo ID."
He just stood there.
But it's important to understand they think it was:
1. good and normal for them to attack us
2. unreasonable at all for us to DISLIKE being attacked
They see resisting as an unprovoked attack. So. Just remember this any time you're like "They'll use this against us..."
And there it is. "Civilized" people ready to say it out loud in a public forum. Not wankers dressed in costumes. Not tweets from numbered accounts. Not quotes picked out in the din of a rally.
Stone cold eradication.
So 1. Control the narrative FROM THE START.
2. Survive and fight back any way you need. Optics are for politicians.
3. Don't try to 'reason' with oppressors and bullies. They are fundamentally broken people who cannot hear you.
Anything we do short of "lay down and die" will be used against us. And even if it's absurd? And you'd think folks would see the obvious absurdity?
They will say "Trans people threatened me." and regulars will go "That's horrible." and nothing you say will add context afterward