#BlackLivesMatter in a rolling crawl. Within minutes, a white guy troll who was probably just searching the hashtag and spewing hatred on people’s Instagram pages wrote: “Dumb cunt.” A couple of internet strangers tried to silence him, and after a while, I just deleted all traces of this discord because infighting was not the purpose of the post. I was deeply sad and was using those three little words to keep myself from drowning in despair, and I was immediately made to feel as though I wasn’t even allowed that. Now, that kind of berating as a form of silencing takes place all over sosh meeds
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