Dear Trump Supporter Who Sent Me Hate Mail For Being A Stupid Jewish Faggot

[KamaAina]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporter-hate-mail_us_583c4f78e4b09b605601443b

I returned to work on Sunday to find three envelopes from you on my desk. They must have arrived sometime last week when I was in Wisconsin with my family for Thanksgiving.

In the letters, which were all identical (I’m not sure why you felt the need to send three), you claim to be someone I went to high school with. You say you love Donald Trump because “he’s anti-semitic and anti-Islamic” and you think I’m a “stupid Jewish faggot.” I can’t be sure we really went to school together but the envelopes were postmarked with a stamp from Milwaukee so I suspect, sadly, that you’re telling the truth....

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by your words, considering hate crimes and hate speech have skyrocketed since Trump won the electoral vote earlier this month. It seems every racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-semitic, xenophobic monster who has been waiting for his/her/their chance to crawl out of whatever sewer they were hiding in has been emboldened by the in-coming Trump administration. I have a hunch it’s only going to get worse, but that doesn’t mean I have to take it lying down (or standing up or reclining on a chaise lounge or hopping on one leg or...), and, in fact, it only makes me more resolute to speak up more and more loudly....

5. Finally, and perhaps most importantly: Fuck you! As scary as it is to know that people like you (from my own past, no less) exist ― and feel comfortable enough with your hate to publicly (though anonymously) broadcast it ― I’m not afraid of you. I’m worried sick about all of the ways you and your cronies could corrode our country in the next four years ― but I refuse to be afraid of you.

Ever notice how the deplorable behaviors tend to cluster together, in this case anti-Semitism and homophobia?

[TwilightZone]

1. Re: cluster together - pretty much any "other" fits the bill...

Or every "other", for that matter.

[BSdetect]

2. What a ridiculous way to attack someone - three letters? Perhaps an OCD victim?

I'm shocked at the number of these attacks since Nov 8.

They really are cowards. They cannot conduct a civil conversation with others just launch snide attacks.

[dubyadiprecession]

3. Are you surprised by who trump has as supporters?

You don't even have to ask, they look like loony tunes ( )when you see them walking down the street!

No, but seriously they are loony.

[world wide wally]

4. This is why a Trump win concerned me so much more than a Trump loss

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Anti-Semitism and homophobia are clustered together more than one might think.

As a gay Jew, I can attest to the fact more than a few of the homophobes are usually anti-Semites, and many of the anti-Semites are also homophobic. I have lots of experience with both, sometimes, I don't have to go far to find both.

[tavernier]

6. Can you imagine what it must feel like

to walk around every day with so much hate and anger inside? It must feel like a rotting, throbbing toothache, or a gut full of poison, doubling one up with cramps at every step. You could almost feel sorry for someone like that.

Almost.

[AgadorSparticus]

7. Knowing these dumbasses, I wouldn't be surprised if they sent 3 letters

Hoping that it would look like 3 different people sending it....only to have it written on the same kind of paper with the same pen/ink in the same handwriting. These people are insanely stupid. The kind of stupid that just hurts.