There's an admission in this article that I've been waiting to have acknowledged for a long time: that August 11 was a failure.
And I am grateful for that honesty from the folks at @IGD_News for publishing this.https://itsgoingdown.org/six-months-on-looking-back-on-charlottesville/ …
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There weren't a lot of faces I knew in that crowd. It was terrifyingly isolating. To see almost no one....
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I've watched my stream dozens of times since then. I listened to the hate I got. "Are you XX or XY?" "is that an open wound between your legs?" "you're not even a real woman"
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There was someone next to me. I still don't know who he is. He wore a PBS shirt. You know what hate he got? "PBS is fucking dead, yo"
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If you're cis, if you haven't experienced anti-trans violence, if you haven't studied our history, if you haven't wept over the memorial at Bebelplatz as I have, you don't understand how that's different.
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And so while hundreds of people, including many of my friends, had refuge, security, and shelter in the church, I saw exactly the face of cleansing violence. The church folks held onto their faith. I lost mine that night.
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I lost all belief that anyone--state or antifascist--would be not just able, but willing to keep me safe.
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So it means something to hear someone, anyone, admit that they let us down that night. I still don't believe anyone has the genuine will to keep me safe. But maybe I can be willing to start the conversations again.
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The revelations in the Discord logs that show how specifically I was targeted, and how violently, and how it was largely BECAUSE I was trans, tell me that we're still a long way from reaching that point.
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Those conversations still haven't been had. Not locally, not broadly not anywhere.
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