It's Fascism

 

Crushing sorrow.

Crushing sorrow. I can't imagine the torment the abducted and falsely imprisoned experience. What anxiety do their loved ones feel?

I suspected people were saying the things we see in the conversation below. I have wondered how many share the same thoughts, were saying such things amongst themselves. It makes it all the more terrifying and desperate.

Again and again we are finding out how so-called 'good people' could have committed such atrocities in the Nazi deathcamps. How they could turn in their neighbors. How they could look the other way when people in their community or workplace were suddenly stopped, arrested, deported and disappeared.

To say "it" was only a gay barber, dismissing another man, a human being, reveals so much about how contempt for gay people seethes below the surface of certain segments of 'polite' society. It comes out in the strangest places, like when a Bishop accuses bishops and priests of 'surrendering to the siren call of homosexuality'. People like that will only acknowledge or accept homosexuals who are all cleaned up, vetted, no longer using terms like gay. The others are enemies or simply and 'it' is 'just a gay'. Expendable.

[I'm talking about "Andry," the gay make-up artist sent to a prison in El Salvador, up labeled by ICE as "Tren de Aragua". Keep his name public, since I'm seeing nothing on MSN.]

Crushing sorrow. My prayers and my tears mingle. If 'they' only knew how innocent, how childlike, how vulnerable many gay men are. They are called horrible names (used for) sodomites, predators, molesters, perverts. They associate all gay men with the exaggerated debauchery of Folsom St. or an orgy at the baths - yet most guys are not like that. But even if they are into that - so are their straight counter-types. What do you think went on at Studio 54, Epstein's mansion and island? Those guys patronizing those venues weren't gay. They were VIPs - exploiting girls and young women in their own exclusive 'service industry' - the girls were just nothings. Can't you see the total lack of humanity? That straight and gay commit the exact same sins when they do that stuff? Why can't people simply see that gay people are human beings who exist in the same reality? They are ordinary people. They can fall into sin, just like anyone else.

The abducted and imprisoned young man, a barber, is an ordinary man, living his life, just doing his job - but he is not an 'it' is 'just a gay barber'.

Crushing sorrow. I've never felt such crushing sorrow and outrage.

We can't keep doing this to human beings.