Well Thank you for the History Lesson. It's too bad that such things had to happen but that's just the way things went.
I mean yeah? It is bad. but I don't think we can just say that's the way things went, that shows apathy and if we don't care about and study the past we can't learn from it and improve
Sorry, I'm all for learning and trying to Improve, but part of my brain feels that We will still find a way to oppress someone so there was no sense in being optimistic of it never happened.
I'm not trying to gloss over the fact that it happened, or be "optimistic of it never happened"- I'm actually advocating teaching it? If you don't teach something then history will rhyme itself (in words attributed to Mark Twain, history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme) and we will keep making bad rhymes
Like it's easy to oppress someone- take away education- that's where the Cycle of Oppression starts. It's easy to to be prejudiced and hateful because being tolerant and loving and accepting actually takes work
We cannot afford to keep making bad rhymes. We need to break the cycle of oppression. It's not okay.
As part of the LGBTQ+ Community, and also as a member of a religion that the early members were literally run out of their homes and persecuted and driven across the plains and massacred, I know about oppression. It is a part of my history. And I will not stand by and have it be perpetuated.
