And IGNORING war, noise, and poverty does not make the country have peace, quiet, and prosperity.
I guess it might for you if you aren’t Muslim. Or gay. Or a woman. Or poor. Or black. Or Latino. Or [insert non-oppressed person here].
THIS
What “this” ? Are people oppressed or do they just feel that way ? Reality vs perception…
Let me give you agander into what my reality is. As a brown skinned mixed man who happens to be bisexual I have been paranoid of someone trying me ever since that prick won. It’s gotten to the point where I’m looking up self defense laws. News stories like the one Frink posted are why I’m looking that shit up. People like you and millions of others can ignore these kind of things because it will never affect you but for people like me the fear is anything but someone’s skewed perception.
And the news article proves this isn’t paranoia. It very well could happen. The current administration distrusts everyone who’s not a straight, white, cis male, and every single thing they’ve done in the last week proves it.
In the same way it’s not paranoia to be constantly worried about being blown up in a terrorist attack because terrorist attacks happen.
I’m gonna just make an assumption without looking for statistics that getting assaulted due to race/gender/sexuality is extraordinarily more likely than being attacked by a terrorist.
I can’t make that assumption.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/11410/complete-list-radical-islamic-terror-attacks-us-james-barrett
I count 13 incidents since 2009.
http://www.ncavp.org/common/document_files/Reports/2004NationalHV Report.pdf
This is only LGBT violence for two years (2003-2004). A couple of thousand each year.
I’ve got a couple issues with the first article. Firstly, it only covers Islamic terror attacks, and secondly I think it’s more fair to compare victims to victims rather than incidents to incidents.
I’m using the dreaded Wikipedia as a source for this; since the Little Rock, Arkansas shooting there have been 26 terror attacks, with 637 total victims (unless I did my math wrong somewhere down the line). That’s not to say that they’re on the same level obviously, since the terror attacks span 8 years but don’t account for even half of LGBT violence in a year.
Even so, both of those figures are pretty damn low in the grand scheme of things. It’s irrational to go around fearing things like this, because the odds of it happening to you are 3720 to 1 😉