building their
fortunes on the backs of slaves
owning and
controlling female beauty
brutally terrorizing
female sexuality
cutting off
pubescent girls’ clitorises
cutting off
male servants’ testes
deniers of
the ten commandments
those who
crucified and tried to silence Jesus
certain that
the Earth was flat
imprisoning Galileo
for his theory that the Earth orbits around the sun
relentlessly colonizing
non-white lands and peoples
loyal subjects
of King George III
against ratifying
the Constitution
against Liberté,
égalité, fraternité
blind and
deaf to the Trail of Tears
incapable of
comprehending Darwin’s theory of evolution
confederate traitors
to the USA
against black
people fighting for their country
preventing black
votes by any means necessary
against black
citizens running for office and serving their communities
the authors
and enforcers of Jim Crow segregation laws
proudly displaying
statues of traitors and terrorists in our public squares
against public
transportation
outlawing Chinese
immigrants
against women
running for office
for the
prohibition of alcohol
burning a
black business district in Tulsa
murdering hundreds
of sharecroppers meeting to unionize in Elaine
sabotaging Social
Security
trying to
kill Medicare, in spite of how well run and popular it is
campaigning to
keep the US from entering WWII
condoning Japanese-American
internment camps
the murderers
of Emmitt Till
afraid to
play sports against black people
for women
doing all the housework
pretending that
civil rights is a not problem
terrorizing peaceful
black children with fire hoses and attack dogs
supporting the
invasion of Vietnam
against Muhammad
Ali’s religious beliefs
against interracial
marriage
against interfaith
marriage
against women
and girls playing sports (this one really angers Magaish incels)
against protecting
the environment
against working
in safe conditions
against helmets
and preventing brain injuries
evangelists of
trickle-down economics
outlawing the
dancing in Footloose
inventing and
enforcing Apartheid
ignoring the
spread of HIV
dead-set against
Donna Martin graduating
proudly supporting
unrestricted gun massacres
disapproving of
single mothers
demeaning to
children of single mothers
against wearing
seat belts
trying to
stop the beat (you can’t stop the beat!)
inventing lies
to justify invading Iraq
against women
fighting for their country
confused about
why they are not getting any
telling everyone
marijuana is a gateway drug (yes, they’ve tried it)
prohibiting same-sex
marriage (until one of their loved ones wanted to get married to a same-sex partner)
banishing Colin
Kaepernick
forbidding peaceful
protest against the murder of unarmed black men
inventing a
thousand different ways to fudge calculations of equal pay for equal work
devoted to
unlimited cash payments to elected officials from ultrarich donors and lobbyists
working to
defund and diminish public education
afraid of
black and brown people
uncomfortable around
gays and lesbians
scared of
transgendered people
against affordable
advanced education and job training
against healthcare
for everyone
funding the
indentured servitude of appointees to the federal judiciary
against women
owning their own bodies
outlawing Central
American immigrants
outlawing Muslim
immigrants
pretending that
climate change does not exist
pretending that
opioids are not devastatingly addictive
making sure
that opioids are immensely profitable
maximizing health
insurance company profits
selling life-saving
medicines with monopolies and hundred-fold price hikes
against treating
refugees as humans
against providing
employees a living wage
unanimously in
favor of giving away trillions in tax revenue to the richest of the rich
asleep at
the switch during a global pandemic
the murderers
of George Floyd
