https://jamiesmithrickly.substack.com/p/say-it-just-say-it
There is something forming, I think, at this particular moment in history, at this particular intersection of pressure. The gays and the Jews. Two groups who have been here before — who know what it looks like when the crowd decides your existence is the problem, when your presence requires justification, when someone gets a camera in your face and demands you perform your own erasure. We have been the ones they practiced on. And we have learned, across generations and at great cost, that saying it does not make it stop. It only tells them it worked.
There is something forming, I think, at this particular moment in history, at this particular intersection of pressure. The gays and the Jews. Two groups who have been here before — who know what it looks like when the crowd decides your existence is the problem, when your presence requires justification, when someone gets a camera in your face and demands you perform your own erasure. We have been the ones they practiced on. And we have learned, across generations and at great cost, that saying it does not make it stop. It only tells them it worked.