Anti Trump People Are Wearing Safety Pins And Other Anti Trump People Are Mad At Anti Trump People For Wearing Safety Pins And I Cannot Stop Laughing.
This is seriously some of the funniest sh*t ever.
According to that sourcelink, hashtag activists have moved on from simple hashtags to way more effective campaigns; namely, pinning safety pins on themselves as a way to proclaim, “I AM A SAFE SPACE FOR PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN VICTIMIZED BY TRUMP’S ELECTION.”
Behold:
But because progressives are generally the most perpetually offended, hilariously self-defeating, and hyper-reactive crybabies ever, there are a bunch of them who are now mad that the safety-pin wearing people are wearing safety pins because it’s not enough. Or it’s too much. Or something.
For example, there’s this article on Huffpo, entitled: Dear White People – Your Safety Pins Are Embarrassing. That one’s brutal. It says, in part:
Seriously? This is a thing now? Wear a safety pin to show “you’re an ally?” So immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and others who were targeted and persecuted and (further) marginalized by the Trump Campaign will know they’re “safe” with you?
No. Just no. Please, take it off.
Let me explain something, white people: We elected a racist demagogue who has promised to do serious harm to almost every person who isn’t a straight white male, and whose rhetoric has already stirred up hate crimes nationwide. White people were 70% of the voters in the 2016 election, and we’re the only demographic Trump won. It doesn’t matter why. What matters is there’s a white nationalist moving into the Oval Office, and white people — only white people — put him there.
We don’t get to make ourselves feel better by putting on safety pins and self-designating ourselves as allies.
Yikes!
And then there’s this one – entitled Questioning Safety Pin Solidarity Revealed Why I Can’t Trust White People. It’s a doozy! Here’s a sample from the article, where the author describes what happened when she questioned people wearing safety pins: … read more here
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