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Good morning. 🌸

Within a single week, both the memorial bench and the memorial tree commemorating the Berlin CSD attack were vandalised and destroyed.

A bench.
A tree.
Both rainbow-coloured.
Both symbols of remembrance, solidarity and love.

It should be difficult to imagine anyone being angry enough about that to destroy them.

And yet here we are.

There is something profoundly rotten about a person so consumed by hatred that a rainbow-painted bench becomes an enemy, and a tree planted in memory of victims becomes something that must be ripped from the ground.

But perhaps we should stop pretending that this is merely some unfortunate disagreement between people with different opinions.

It isn't.

Fascism has never been satisfied with words. First it tells you that certain people are disgusting. Then it tells you they are dangerous. Then it tells you they don't belong.

And eventually, someone will start killing the people they feel don't belong.

So no.

There can be no compromise with that.

We will not make ourselves smaller so fascists can feel comfortable. We will not hide our colours. We will not politely negotiate over whether our friends, our families, our children or ourselves deserve to exist.

They tear down the tree?

Plant another.

They destroy the bench?

Build two.

They try to erase us?

Stand together. Stand visible. Stand unafraid.

Don't let hatred decide what our streets look like.
Don't let fear decide how loudly we love.
Don't let fascists teach us to disappear.

Show up. Speak out. Protect one another. Defend our spaces. Rebuild what they destroy. And never, ever surrender the ground they want us to leave.

They can tear down a tree.

They cannot uproot a movement. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#CSD #Berlin #Pride #QueerResistance #NoPasaran #Antifascism #QueerSolidarity

Today I was told I should leave Europe because I apparently hate white people so much.

Why?

Because I keep fighting fascism and Nazis.

And apparently, according to this person, my great ideological failure is that I refuse to name Muslims as the “main threat.”

Seriously?

The chap I buy my kebabs from is Muslim. The family running the grocery store across the street is Muslim.

The people who tried to beat me up in Utrecht were Czechs. The woman who recently verbally attacked me on the U-Bahn was Christian, and white.

And yes, the attacker at the Berlin CSD was an Islamist.

And that is precisely my fucking point.

I fight fascism.

White supremacist fascism. Christian fundamentalism. Islamism. Nationalism. Authoritarianism. Whatever flavour of hatred comes crawling out from under whatever rock it has chosen to call home.

I am not going to participate in the fascist fantasy that Muslims are the enemy while white men are apparently waiting nobly in the wings to save civilisation.

Sorry. I've met history.

I know what hateful white men are capable of when they decide that their hatred gives them permission to hurt people.

And frankly?

I know people I would much rather stand beside.

My kebab vendor.

That Muslim family at the grocery store.

People who simply get on with their lives, treat me like a human being, and don't require me to pass some ridiculous racial purity test before they'll show me basic decency.

So keep your fucking race-war fantasies to yourself.

I judge people by their actions.

Actually, scratch that.

I don't collectively judge groups of people at all.

Except fascists.

Because fascism isn't a skin colour, an ethnicity, a religion, or a continent.

It's a choice.

And if you've chosen fascism, congratulations: you've chosen me as your problem.

I have no intention of making your life comfortable.

#AntiFascism #NeverAgain #NoHate #Fascism #QueerResistance #ResistFascism #WhiteSupremacy #Islamism #ChristianFundamentalism #Solidarity #NoToHate