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tarajenkins:

My “social justice warrior” training began young, when I was around ten or eleven. I wrote a lot of letters to both our major newspapers and also wrote our state governor about a catchphrase used by the media to describe delinquent parents at that time, “deadbeat dads”. I wanted them to stop using…

Worth the read.

Death threats, rape threats, etc are all to familiar to people who even remotely agree with this it seems. Weapon of choice is fear.

Making you fear you are wrong, you are alone, and you should be quiet. Its terrifying to have someone threaten you over the opinion…you don’t like rape jokes. Its been a long time since I visited that certain debilitating fear over anything, and the fact its over THAT is absurd.

One of the most powerful things I’ve found though is the knowledge “No, you aren’t alone. There are people who will support you, who’ve had similar experiences as you.”

Cause as loud as that bad side can be, there’s plenty of people who are just scared to say anything. They sometimes just need that voice to say the right thing, as Tara said.