I don't think I am welcome on this planet. The people who say they want tolerance encourage hate, the people portrayed as hateful people mostly have just wanted to be left alone. I don't even like talking these topics. I want music and art in my life, but every aspect of my 1/

Life is inundated with it. Gaming forums and chats. Music and art chats. Even my own Discord which has a no politics rule I had to intervene the other day, and it has like 30 people, and maybe 6 who talk. I am tired of it. I hate it. I just want to curl up and die. I am sick 2/

Of every region of my life being negativity, complaining, divisiveness, and the gloating. Christ the gloating. People claiming any petty victory they can, and trying to rub it in people's faces. Schisms. People cutting ties with potential friends with lots in common. 3/

People encouraging strife instead of trying to end it. People assuming things about large groups of people, and it isn't who you think, probably, and it might be your side. Nobody is innocent. It has to stop. I do not join communities to hate anyone. I don't have the energy to 4/

Be mad all the time. I stay quiet and observe. I have seen hateful things said about groups that include me and kept quiet for years. I have been vilified for tiny reasons. Excommunicated for wanting nuance and reason. Hated for wanting cooperation. 5/

Do you have to agree with everyone? Of course not. That isn't where solutions come from. However, you have to live on the same planet as these people and the idea of tribes has been mostly dead for centuries. This world needs harmony before I finally get so jaded that 6/

I finally decide everything I enjoy is off limits, and isolate into a dangerous, lonely state of mind. And don't just come comfort me in the hollow "things will get better" way. You, yourself, may be part of the problem, too. You, yourself may be harboring ill mindsets to 7/

People you know zero about--people you probably have more in common with than different, and everyone seems to be looking for the differences. Fuck the differences. You can't change someone's mind by shunning them most of the time. Usually you will just make them double down. 8/

Have you ever even asked WHY someone thinks what they do? Ever tried to be calm and discuss things? Each person is different. Each person will respond in a different way, and maybe at the end of the day, YOU are the one who is wrong sometimes. And that is fine. It is how 9/

We learn. It is where we can improve. And that is good. But pushing away anything that is different from your "correct" makes you vilify people who could teach you things. Everyone is not your enemy unless you make them that, and that is a depressing, lonely world to live in. 10/

And what really kills me is thst I am part of certain groups (art groups, mostly) who will do that to you even for humoring the potential that things aren't black and white. I have become pushed into that lonely world by the very people who claim to say they encourage d
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Diversity. Here's the thing: diversity means nothing without unity. Look for what you share, ASK about what you don't. Some ideas (racism, starting violence, destruction) are wrong the majority of the time, but the person you vilify probably agrees on that and you have 12/

Assumed things about them incorrectly. I hate posting every word of this because I loathe confrontation, but my feed here, the way I keep in touch with most of you, is plagued with anger and hatred and a PROMISE not to mend bridges with sometimes literally half the country. 13/

I can only handle so much, but I want to be friends with every one of you. However, some of you are making that MORE than difficult. Please. Take a step back. Look in the mirror. Thwt face you see? There is someone on the other side of your screen with a face, too. 14/

And a heart. And a mind. And ambitions. Dreams. Hopes. Imagination. All the things that make people great, and you could be the one destroying the faith they have in humanity. You could pull them from the extreme, but you may have to reach your hand out and touch theirs to do it.