Not your Business

The Fraser Institute told the Indigenous people that they should celebrate 150 years of Canada. Because after all, the residential schools are closed now, there is some kind of investigation in the missing and murdered women and people who publicly state their hate for indigenous people are getting banned from social media.

The police tell the battered woman that she should be happy about her marriage now. Her husband stopped beating her, he can not publicly threaten her anymore, and after all, there were some moments together that were not just abuse.

The politician tells the gay refugee that he should gladly return to his country - after all the killing has stopped, the president that threatened homosexuals got exiled to another country and the media is not sending hate messages anymore.

Who are we, to tell others how they should feel.

Who are we, to tell the abused, tortured, discriminated that they should stop feeling this way.

Who among us, would like to be told

that all you need to change is how to feel about violence and pain and "Voila" it just disappears.

I grew up in Communist Germany. It even quite annoys me if people try to tell me that the day The Wall came down should have been the happiest of my life.