Thank you to Defiant L’s for highlighting the below social media post by an absolutely despicable person:
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Translation: “The only thing that upsets me about what happened to Ashli Babbitt, a person who is different from me…” Or: “The only thing that upsets me about what happened to Ashli Babbitt, a person who is different from the majority…”
The fact that a person would post something like this is horrible for self-evident reasons, but the poster’s decision to refer to Ashli as a “domestic terrorist” merits mentioning specifically, because it demonstrates the mindless and aggressive intolerance that is so common among people today.
God forbid that a person who is different from me have the audacity to exist, is the mentality of this poster. God forbid that a person who is different from me – gasp! – express their beliefs. God forbid that people – the horror! – participate in a protest that I don’t support. This poster and those who share his ideology believe it to be so self-evident that being different from them, different from the majority, is bad, that they use the entire concept of being different as a pejorative. But this is not true at all, let alone self-evidently so. Being different from the majority is a good thing that should be rewarded and celebrated, not criticized, not insulted, and certainly not punished with death as it was for Ashli Babbitt.
Dear person who made this despicable post: Ashli Babbitt did absolutely nothing wrong. Her only “crime” was being different from you, and different from the majority. You have no right to criticize her, let alone insult her as cruelly and sadistically as you chose to do. You have no right to express, as you chose to do, that it is somehow a good thing for her to have received the death penalty. As an autistic person who has always had difficulty fitting in, your stance on Ashli Babbitt is a personal attack on me.
“i said what i said,” you gloat, as if mindless conformity, aggressive intolerance, vicious cruelty, and complete moral bankruptcy are somehow things to be proud of. (Apparently, capitalization is as foreign a concept to you as morality is, but that’s a whole different issue.)
You are a mindless conformist, a bully, and a bigot. That is infinitely worse than being a domestic terrorist. For you to call on others to “be a good person” is an egregious act of hypocrisy. Because you are as far from a good person as it is possible to be.