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i know it’s sad, people will lash out others due to fear. i think it’s been extremely irresponsible of our leaders and honestly more so the media than anything. obviously not all media but especially some subs of reddit are laughing at people who have died. yeah most people can probably separate themselves from the information on reddit and not act on it, but there are plenty of people out there who aren’t as bright, who may take that information on reddit and use it to harm people thinking they are somehow justified in doing so. reports like this keep surfacing and it’s starting to show people that they really took the wrong approach about how they treated people. but my parents said stuff like this happened towards the gay community during the aids crisis. a lot of queer people were targeted more so during that time by people who justified their actions because of the toxic or misinformed rhetoric that was going on at the time.

i know it sounds cheesy but our words really do have power, we say things and they don’t always just get heard, they can be understood and acted upon or misunderstood and acted upon, good and bad. we’ve witnessed it before, sure the atmosphere was ripe during certain times, where a voice came forward and got people to march with them. good and bad. there’s a reason why oral traditions were and ancient text have talked about words having power. because it’s true. words have power.