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The privileged don't need internet death threats, they've got better weapons.

iamgrey:

“…Privileged people.  Powerful people.  They don’t need to threaten us directly with rape.  They don’t need to say “I hope you die in a fire.”  They can smile, they can wave.  They can speak calmly.  They can seem like the person you’d like to have a coffee with.  And all they while, they’re men passing laws against abortion, they’re cis women keeping trans women out of shelters, they’re cis people writing letters from their privileged positions (whether professional or social) to other privileged people asking them to rescind or deny rights to trans people.  They’re smiling on their talk shows while talking about the “holocaust” of abortion, knowing full well anybody who truly believes them will see the only logical next step.  They’re calmly drinking their coffee and writing a column about how there’s a secret Muslim invasion of the West. 

These people don’t need to make death threats.  The things they say, the things they advocate for, the voice they have to get people to listen to those things, what they do… those things are threats in themselves.  And they have WAY more of a chance to actually have those threats happen.  Because real people will be without shelter when they desperately need it, rape survivors will be without support, pregnant people without an ability to control their own bodies, Muslim people targeted for violence, abortion doctors targeted for death.

These people make threats every day.  And because they have the privilege, and the position, to be able to do it smiling, calmly, looking just like somebody you’d like to have a coffee with.  Because they never actually said “I hope you die.”  It’s okay.  They’re the victim.  They’re the ones who just innocently expressed a random opinion, (as if we believe they threw darts on a dart board to figure out what they believe) and are getting death threats from those meany meany people.”

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Source: iamgrey