Here’s Why We Cannot Stop Talking About Trump
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To all the people who keep commenting that we need to stop talking about Trump — that you don’t want to see his face again, etc — please stop trying to erase him and pretending life is “back to normal”.
Trump was the symptom of all that is wrong in our world. He was the symptom of denial, the symptom of systemic racism, the symptom of white supremacy, the symptom of upholding obsolete practices that do not serve the majority of people. Yet he was not the **cause** of all these things — and whether or not he is in the White House, these things still exist!
We cannot just put our fingers in our ears and la la la his destruction away. We have to talk about him. We have to talk about systemic oppression. We have to push ourselves beyond our immediate comfort zones. We have to talk about how we fix things — and we have to live in reality.
With our without Trump in office, too many global citizens are currently living underneath archaic status quo establishments that do not serve them. These establishments serve the maintenance of white supremacy, the patriarchy and overt capitalism. If we want to save this planet of ours — and people all over the world — we need to work at dismantling these systems in their current forms.
Discomfort is inherent to progression. Discomfort means you’re actively unlearning and relearning. If you’re going to run for the hills the minute you receive some push back, you are not “doing the work”.
We hope this account is and will always be a safe and playful space for progressive people to giggle at (and think about) politics — yet we also want it to be a place where we can collectively unlearn, relearn about the realities of systemic disadvantage. Pretending to go back to pre-Trump times is not an option. They were shitty too!
So let’s all get our fingers out of our ears and push to unpacking our inherent biases and to normalizing our own discomfort! Because revolutions do not happen on the back of convenience and contentment.
