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9:00am June 2, 2015

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Related to that last thing:

It’s actually one of the things that bothers me the most, how quick people are to joke with lives when they don’t like the politics of a place. People are dead and dying, there is destruction and danger and fear, and it’s all a joke, all payback for the faults of the governing body. It is not cute to say that some place deserves a disaster upon them because they don’t agree with you. Maybe you are wrong in some cases. Maybe they are wrong, but that doesn’t mean they deserve to die.

There was a post I saw several months ago showing the size of Ceres, Pluto, and the moon compared to Texas. The comments said we should use Ceres to destroy Texas, if Ceres hit Texas then Texas would no longer be a problem. (One comment even said it would wipe out some other surrounding area, but nothing worth saving.) Think about why we call Texas a problem in the first place: is it the effect of conservative federal-level legislators? In part, maybe, but California has more population and so should cancel that out (since I have yet to see anyone call for California to be destroyed, it must be all so liberal /sarcasm). Most people cite how awful it is for oppressed Texans: female Texans, gay Texans, Latinx Texans, poor Texans. So how does destroying Texas help them? They wouldn’t have to deal with Texan government anymore, but they would also all be dead.

And if it seems I’m taking such an obvious joke too seriously, think about why you want a joke that is funny because everyone is dead, including those people you say we must protect. The outsider activism (as distinct from activism coming from within the community of that place) for places like Texas, like Russia with its horrific anti-LGBT laws and policies, for people like the rural poor, on this site is almost never about actually helping them, but rather about feel-good jokes that show *you* understand how awful it must be to live there, wouldn’t it be better if not one else had to? Even if that means they don’t get to live at all? Maybe people in these places and cultures have good reason to be suspicious of the oh-so-enlightened outsider activist.

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