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thejusticethatissocial:

[Image Description – A series of tweets by rawhead.bloodybones ‏@so_treu that read: 

Notice how quick the Orlando shooting turned into a referendum on gun control rather than one on anti-LGBT legislation sweeping the U.S. 

Notice how this instance of anti-LGBT violence is being used to bolster the state security apparatus rather than challenge it. 

Notice how queer death is used to bolster the imperialist “war on terror” & legitimize state sanctioned racial profiling. 

Which is what the terrorist watch list mostly is.

Notice how no one wants to put the shooting in the context of anti-LGBT, antiblack, anti-immigrant transmisogynistic violence.

Notice how much easier it is for us to discuss “islamist violence” than any of these other violences. 

Notice how they never use the word “terrorism” when it’s queer POC dying.

Notice how the shooting is being used as an excuse to further militarize queer and POC spaces. 

Notice the ties between rising nativism/nationalism and the death rates of the ones excluded in order to “make america great again”] 

And now we’ve got states like Mississippi trying to pass more anti-gay/discriminatory laws. Right after the Orlando massacre. What the FUCK is wrong with people.