Prolly your bedroom after work or school or whatever you do would work as a "safe space" but confining yourself to one is dangerously unhealthy.
Yah gata face the world or you'll never improve yourself
Amen.
I am triggered, I guess, because in my efforts to understand the hate, I have found success. I understand hate and evil more than I ever thought possible.
Often, the person who throws bottles, does so because they are afraid. The hate comes from the fear of change, the fear of the destruction of a way of life.
I saw it when lgbt people were super smug over the supreme court victory. It fueled hate, by being smugly offensive to people who just had their world change.
I see it now on the other foot, as trump, an insane house and senate, and likely a GOP dominated supreme court tear the lgbt community's world down. The lgbt feels the world ending fear that religious hetero people did then.
Which group went on the bigger nation wide rampage?
Understand why it made me mad?
Understand why I reject further division?
The way to survive this is to deny pence, and others like him what they need to justify their actions. When we riot, when we ridicule their faith, when we smugly rub their noses in progressive victories, we create people like him, and make the cause of that hate very strong. We slam the door of understanding on those people.
To survive, all of us, us and them alike, we have to stop hurting each other, and stop destroying ways of life.
To stop "reprogramming" initiatives like pence has endorsed, we have to reach moderate people who just want the culture war to end. We gave to stop being radical, and be just normal. When people are cruel to us, we need to understand why, and work to remove those reasons why.
Polarizing, crawling into echo chambers, and losing our damned minds is not the way forward.
If we want to survive the next 4 to 8 years, we will need the help of normal straight people and religious people. It must be sincere.