What I hate most is that part of me understands. As a queer person, I’ve had people trying too hard to be cool and it’s awkward, and I’ve had bigots treat me like just anyone else to my face. If I was a fucking moron I might come to similar conclusions to the author. But the reality is that trying too hard is a statement of genuine care and acceptance, it’s an othering one, but one that says “you belong and I’ll put in effort in an attempt to show you that.”

I don’t call Maga racist because it’s trendy, I call it racist because I’m white and I’ve heard what they tell white people. They have a contingent that see any brown people coming into this country as stealing jobs whether those jobs are doing difficult low paid labor like agricultural work, skilled hard labor like construction, or extremely skilled labor like surgery. They don’t care they’ll claim surgeons coming in are stealing jobs from hardworking Americans even if those jobs are desperately understaffed. And they’ll probably accuse the surgeons of being rapists and gang members or terrorists or communists.