Your Complicity is Not My Problem
Why "I'm not political at all" is no longer acceptable in my life
Days like this remind me of how much better my life has been since I stepped away from my social media accounts. A friend shared this screenshot with me along with a note that he noticed I had a few mutual friends with the author:
It’s been months since I left social media, but I took a few minutes to investigate, messaging our mutuals with the screenshot. I don’t know the individual, but I will not maintain connection with anyone who condones such sentiments, so I wanted to give those folks the opportunity to act.
If I were to remain silent I would be guilty of complicity. - Edward Abbey
One of my acquaintances responded to my message.
Them: It’s impossible to go through everyone when we have work and lives to live. You read it the way people do in their heads when they read texts. I’m not political whatsoever.
Needless to say, that was the end of the conversation and that individual is no longer connected to me whatsoever. I too have work and a life to live, but I also have a conscious and a heart, both of which dictate the person I need to be. And the person I need to be is someone who can sleep at night knowing that I don’t make excuses for fascist behavior.
I am a combat veteran of the United States military, and I’ll be damned if I will be silent and complicit when the U.S. Constitution is being used as toilet paper. And if some keyboard warrior wants to fuck around, I’m going to help them find out.