THE BASIS OF BIGOTRY

How dare you be different from me

How dare you not look, talk, think,

Feel

As I do

How dare you constantly suggest

As you do by being other

That I

What I think

What I feel

What I am

Is wrong

 

How dare you suggest

As you do by being other

That I am not the standard

By which all should be judged

How dare you

As you do by being other

Make me feel uneasy

Insecure

“Uncomfortable”

 

I will hurt you for your insult

Of not being like me

I will punish you for this affront

I will righteously condemn you for your crime

Of existing

As “other”:

How dare you be different from me

How DARE you be DIFFERENT from me

 

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