“They’re afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt.”
good
no, not good. because if we hate them as much as Trump and his supporters hate certain groups, we are no better than they are.
yeah I am
“if you hate these bigots you’re just as bigoted as they are”
This “we’re no better than them” mentality makes the critical mistake that hate itself is the problem.
Hate is not the problem. At all. Hate can be constructive. Hate can be defensive and come from righteous outrage.
The problem is irrational hate towards innocent people.
Hating a racist is COMPLETELY fucking different from hating a race. A whole race didn’t do anything wrong. A racist did. Hating the racist is 100% proportionate, justifiable retaliation.
Fucking. Mic. Drop.
The reason that hate groups like the Klan have been driven so near to extinction is because of this exact thing. It became unfashionable to be publicly racist, and the backlash against those kinds of groups became unbearable for them. It drove them out of the limelight and into the very fringes of society.
This postmodern “hating the hate makes you just as bad” bullshit is what’s allowing them to re-prosper.
Fuck that.
Expose them. Make them lose their friends. Ridicule them in classes. If you can get away with it, beat their asses. Show them what it means that we will not go back to that way of life again. It’s time for the racists to be the ones who live in fear.
It’s not even about hating Nazis. It’s about having an understanding of what happens when fascists are allowed to organize. They kill. We understand that the only way to prevent them from murdering innocent people is to rise up against them and prevent them from organizing by any means necessary.
It is self-defense and it is not something that we enjoy.
almost 2 years later this has had some really nice additions
the sixth year gryffindor boys dorms must have been so awkward like imagine being in a situation where you’re bunking with a girl’s ex boyfriend, current boyfriend, and older brother at the same time
slkdjflkdf like IMAGINE!!!! oh my god…like harry comes in with seconds to spare before curfew or whatever and ron like wants to know where he was and gets halfway through asking and then just trails off awkwardly and harry tries to laugh out of answering and dean’s just like unabashedly sulking/glaring and whoever else is in there just watching the whole thing wanting to crawl out the window
I would like to point out that the other person in their room was seamus who had a massive crush on dean so it was worse
you’re who i stay up for. dog-tired, almost-dreaming when i close my eyes – and i still stay up just to keep talking. you wind up in my dreams because i’m not done thinking about you even while i’m asleep. i sit in class and realize: oh shit, not again, i’ve been thinking about you instead of listening. you make me feel like a wet road all lit up in neon lights. you make me feel like a warm fog. you make me feel like june. god. i hope i’m a fraction of this to you.
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