Tag: Ashli Babbitt

bookmark_borderRebutting a despicable social media post re: Ashli Babbitt

Posted on by Marissa

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.

bookmark_borderFour years ago today

Posted on by Marissa

Four years ago today, after spending months lauding, worshipping, and deifying the perpetrators of riots in which the people I love were murdered, society decided to erupt in an orgy of vicious condemnation of a group of people like me who had the audacity to actually hold a protest expressing our views.

For the entire late spring and summer of 2020, in nearly every city and state, intolerant bullies held violent and hateful demonstrations during which they demanded that members of the majority never again have to encounter a person who is different from the norm, that people like me be obliterated from existence, that the only perspective acknowledged be their own, that all voices other than theirs be silenced. My “friends” responded to this by unanimously flooding social media with mindless expressions of solidarity with the bullies. Politicians responded by effusively praising the bullies, groveling at their feet, and falling all over each other in their eagerness to fulfill the bullies’ demands. Our country’s public art, public spaces, place names, and calendars were redone to ensure that people like me could no longer feel included, to erase every possible trace of non-majority perspectives, stories, and viewpoints.

On January 6, 2021, people like me protested. We were hurt and angry at the way that we had been treated, as anyone with even half a brain would be in our situation. After being subjected to months of the cruelest and most appalling treatment imaginable, finally we fought back. Our hurt and anger were 100% justified, as were all of our actions. My “friends” responded to this by expressing their disgust and complaining that it made them sick to their stomachs to see people like me standing up for ourselves and expressing our views. The pro-bullying activists who up until that point had been masquerading as the news media responded by viciously attacking and condemning us in the harshest terms imaginable. Live on air, the disgraceful excuses for human beings who called themselves political commentators called us idiots, morons, “traitors,” white supremacists, and worse.

Four years ago today, one of the people like me who participated in the protest, Ashli Babbitt, was murdered. And society responded not by criticizing the person who murdered her, but by condemning and ridiculing her for having participated in the protest in the first place. Society reacted by blaming her for her own murder.

Today, Donald Trump will be certified as president. Nothing can bring Ashli Babbitt back, but this day gives me a small bit of satisfaction. Nothing can truly undo the atrocity that was perpetrated against people like me four years ago, but this day does undo it a little bit. This day gives me, and all people like me, a victory. Because what the participants in the protest were trying to achieve four years ago, has actually happened. Donald Trump is going to be president. Today, people like me have won. And the mindless and intolerant society that decided to sadistically attack, condemn, shame, insult, and murder us, merely for expressing views that are different from those of the majority, lost.

To say that it serves them right, would be an understatement.

 

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Rest in peace, Air Force Veteran Ashli Babbitt.

Say Her Name.

bookmark_borderJanuary 6, 2021

Posted on by Marissa

One year ago, Ashli Babbitt was killed by a police officer while protesting against the installation of a totalitarian government.

Starting immediately, and continuing without pause up till the present moment, Babbitt and her fellow protesters were attacked and personally insulted – with a brutality, viciousness, and utter unprofessionalism that was nothing short of breathtaking and sickening – by those whose job is to be neutral.

Worse, hundreds of Babbitt’s fellow protesters were arrested and jailed for the crime of engaging in political dissent.

The way that the January 6th protest was handled and reacted to by the media establishment and the political establishment represented an all-time low for both establishments.

I use the term “January 6th protest” deliberately.

The events of January 6, 2021 were not a riot. They were not an insurrection. They were not an attack. They were not a coup attempt. They were not an act of domestic terrorism. They were a protest.

Even if the events of January 6 were an insurrection, the fact that someone would use this as an insult is proof of that person’s authoritarianism, moral bankruptcy, and cowardice. The United States is a nation founded upon the idea of rebelling against authority. Whatever word you use – whether it be rebellion, revolution, uprising, treason, sedition, or insurrection – fighting back against authority is something that Americans should value and celebrate, not use as an insult. Anyone who contemptuously pontificates about the “assault on our democracy” by “traitors” or “insurrectionists” is a mindless, morally bankrupt coward who values compliance with authority more than liberty, individual rights, human decency, or justice.

The actions of the Biden administration over the past year have proven that Babbitt and her fellow protesters were 100% correct and 100% justified.

From today onwards, I will think of January 6th as the day that Ashli Babbitt was unjustly killed. I will remember Ashli as a veteran, a patriot, and a brave person who put herself in harm’s way to stand up for what she believed in.

January 6th is Ashli Babbitt Day.