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Whoever supports oppression, supports fear being used against people from positions of power, sees the suffering of the lesser as funny, I bid you to reflect upon yourselves. You probably still will not, but at least have this thought cross your mind: what is the gain from all this? From removing people’s reproductive rights and having people die of childbirth? From the untold horror of families torn apart by throwing parents across a border? From tariffs on China that only make his own citizens pay more? From not letting people’s passports, probably even my passport, reflect who they are? But of course you will not listen to me still, material reality is of no concern to you. You only care about four more horrid years under funny orange man that all of your friends support, and in that is the real problem; I do not care if you disagree with me, but instead of holding a dialogue you are cowards. You hide behind half-hearted smirked statements and your majority supremacy, but you hold no real positions—yet, you choose hate. You choose a system in which every last bit of worth is extracted from the bottom in service of the company, the president, the nation! And you are yet stupid enough to not realize that you are those very people from whom it is extracted; not only your surplus labor value, but your individuality, your ability of expression, your art. I don’t believe any of you are beyond the point of return, but I beg you, do not follow the majority simply because it is such, do not hide your true allegiance behind insincerity. I respect you much more if you come forth and actually argue your positions, if you actually pay attention to what the true consequences of actions are. I will never judge you for positions you held in the past, but I will, and heavily, for your inaction to change them in the present. And I hope everyone here does the same. Choose love, choose sincerity.
I wrote this to my Czech high school class WhatsApp groupchat after people were celebrating the inauguration there and I wanted to share it.