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how do you cope with the fact that people hate you for who we are? (lemmy.ml)

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I'm just tired of people treating us like shit. I don't know why I care. Why do people live to hate?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In my day job i spend a lot of time doing education and professional development around supporting and including rainbow people - in healthcare, education, business, across every sector. We did the math recently, and figured out we've done this with over 15,000 people in the last three years - and I can count on one hand the times someone has been hateful or not willing to learn. Absolutely overwhelmingly people are wanting to know to better support our communities - it's just that the opposition are so good at being very loud and taking up lots of space.

That's something I keep coming back to when it feels overwhelming - there's so much noise and so much hate, but I know it's coming from an absolute minority. I know this is far more complex in the states, where that minority have a lot of power - but they are still the minority, for sure.