When Ferguson etc happened, we Europeans educated ourselves, we cried with you. When Charlie Hebdo and Germanwings happened, what do you do? You devalue our mourning by saying “blablabla white guy YOU’RE ALL ISLAMOPHOBIC”.
NO. STOP IT.
I am so fucking angry.
wut
When I see things like this, I sometimes wonder how Europe has a “dumb American” stereotype when people from Europe say shit like this.
“shit like this”. Wonderful. You know what? The only words of understanding I have seen the past few day on my dash were from Germans
and French people. I have gotten a few American asks expressing their
condolences after that rage post I made went viral.
This post
stems from the simple fact that 80 fucking percent of the posts about
the tragedy I saw were things like “Oh, they’re only checking for mental
illnesses bc he is white”
Not a single fucking word about the victims. 150 people were killed. An entire high school class, babies, people who were in that plane and were looking forward to see their loved ones again.
This tragedy has hit Germany so fucking hard. You know what many of us did? We have put flags outside. Half mast. With black ribbons. You
might not know it, but flags in Germany mean shit is getting serious.
We don’t put flags outside. This may seem weird to literally any other
country of the world, but, outside the world cup or really really bad
tragedies, you don’t see flags. You DON’T. Schools don’t have them, courts don’t have them, our fucking POLICE STATION does not have them. Normal people don’t have them. The
last time I remember that we have put some up was Winnenden. A student
went on a killing spree in his school and killed 16 people, including
himself. And let me tell you: Our country was paralized. So yeah. A
good method to measure the extent of shit going down here is to look at
the number of flags. The more flags. the worse. And let me tell you, I have been drowned in flags and black ribbon while walking the streets of my city. And what do we get? No ounce of sympathy. No one talks about the innocent victims.
Instead,
we get told that we’re islamophobic because we don’t say that that
pilot was a terrorist. Oh yeah, “because he was white.” The definition of terrorism is violence against civilians to achieve political, religious or ideological goals. Nope, nope, and nope. He did not want to achieve any goal beside killing himself. That he took all those innocents with him is so fucking awful, but this is not terrorism. So please, stop trying to make this a thing about terrorism or racism, because it is NOT.
Yes,
racism, islamophobia and sexism is awful. I, as a history/political
science major who actually really involved in fighting all this,
wholeheartedly agree. But it is a complete different area and has
nothing to do with this tragedy. (”fun” fact: The first thing that was
checked was whether he had any terrorist motives like Breivik (a
Christian terrorist btw)).
So yeah, I as someone from Europe, may
have not said “shit like this” if more people from outside here had
expressed a little sympathy, if
more people had grieved with us, if more people had actually thought
about the victims instead of trying to twist this tragedy into a thing
that it is not, just to fit their crusade.
Please, stop making this tragedy about yourselves. A few words of sympathy, a bit of empathy for a country that is SHOCKED. Is that to much to ask for? Maybe I wouldn’t write “shit like this” then.
slytherins: *have no role models. i mean no role models. regulus black is seen as a death eater, snape is an abusive bastard, draco isn't given redemption, andromeda is hardly mentioned. no role models*
slytherins: *work hard all year, about to win, and still lose the house cup*
slytherin first years: *belittled when sorted. they're eleven years old*
slytherins: *always suspected, undermined, and pitted against the rest of the school*
slytherins: *booed at every Quidditch match*
slytherins: *excluded from the only redemption they can have- fighting in the battle and dumbledore's army*
slytherins: *expected to fight in the battle anyways and treated like fucking terrorists when they choose not to for fear that they'll be fighting their parents, friends, and family*
slytherins: *automatically taken to mean death eater*
slytherins: *always pitted against the rest of the school and portrayed as terrible people even though they face discrimination and harassment*
Gryffindors: WHY ARE ALL THE SLYTHERINS MEAN TO US? WE'RE SO NICE!! *uwu*
do you ever just feel so awkward when you buy something and pay in cash and the cashier gives you the change back but you take a few seconds to put the money in your wallet and you can feel the world judging you from afar
I’m glad it isn’t just me
I’m a cashier and let me tell you that nobody cares and nobody is judging you, I love you.
