All Lives Matter?

You know, playing at semantics is always fun,
   when marginalized people are being killed en mass.
But Little Lord Privilege over here feels 'left out'.
   Boo hoo.
Did marginalized people speaking about their suffering upset you?
   Did people who are being slaughtered daily make you feel uncomfortable?
It would be so much easier if they just suffered in silence, wouldn't it?
   Then you wouldn't have to be reminded of how fucking lucky you are.
When marginalized people say they suffer,
   and you as a privileged person say, "I suffer too."
Do you know what that sounds like?
   You got all the cookies,
   and a starving person wants one cookie,
   and you scream, "I deserve a cookie too!"
   Do you know what you sound like?
Do you know what it's like to be queer in this day and age?
   Where the life expectancy of a transgender person is 40 years?
Do you know what it's like to be a queer person of colour?
   Where the life expectancy can be as low as 25 years?
When they say, "Our Lives Matter!"
   When they cry out because of the abuse they suffer.
And you waltz through declaring "All Lives Matter!"
   Well done.
Well done you selfish arsehole.
   Here. Let me clap for you... slowly.
I'm reminded of the cartoon of the fireman,
   watering a house next to a house on fire.
   "All Houses Matter."

Do me a favour.
   Instead of lecturing me about how "All Lives Matter"
   How about you take your entitled privileged ass,
   and go tell some racists, homophobes, transphobes, and misogynists,
   that all lives matter, EVEN OURS.

And stop pretending as if marginalized people are the ones being dishonest and divisive.

#BlackLivesMatter
#TransLivesMatter
#LGBTQIALivesMatter
#WomensLivesMatter

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