I detest that I am making this post. It comes up in conversation too often for me to ignore it so I apologise to those who love and adore me and people in their lives that are not wrapped up in the race-based science and the eugenics of Franz & so many that insist that race is real*.
Some years ago, a close friend of mine said a friend of hers was being abused by her romantic partner. She was a foreigner, did I know of any resources to help her sort out her rights? She left her job, her flat and her whole life behind to be here.
Also, she was several weeks pregnant.
I got to work on gathering the information I could.
About a month later, there was another woman in a similar situation.
They started to pour in after this.
I made a page on my website with a list of links for them to access. After a while, I created a chatroom to address individual issues.
We started with 35 people. When I left, there were more than 600.
More than six hundred women had been imported by Norwegian men and discarded in inhumane, sometimes violent ways.
The one thing they all had in common was that they were women of colour. Most had been replaced with white women. They were place markers until these men got what they truly wanted – a woman of their race. They were told they were loved, adored & promised a future – many were married and had children. Some were just there to keep a tidy house and a warm bed – glorified domestic servants.
Often to be discarded once they got pregnant.
I held their hand when they needed a friend at the hospital when they chose to terminate unwanted pregnancies. I was a perfect stranger, but we were in solidarity with our cause – being treated like second-class citizens by Norwegian men.
We created a list of the abusers. I thought it was important that each one of them was held accountable for the damage that was done. These women’s lives were destroyed yet the men in a lot of cases were unscathed.
I spent so many nights crying listening to their stories. My heart broke for each of them (at the same time trying to tell myself that the same thing was not happening to me, I was not being manipulated and taken for a ride. No, of course not. This Norwegian man was different. He cared about me. He would not lie to me… how naïve I feel now)
Children were left fatherless. Women were beaten, raped, left homeless and sent back to countries they no longer called “home”. They were used, belittled and mocked. The government here seems to tsk tsk them like they should have known better.
Boys will be boys, after all.
It is not until you are put in someone else’s shoes do you wonder how to proceed.
Let us not mince our terminologies – in a lot of cases, these are hate crimes.
Hate crime, noun, is a crime, typically one involving violence, that is motivated by prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or other grounds.
If these women had been white, they would not have been treated like this.
When I sit in silence, do I know that this has not happened to me as well?
Do I?
If I move backwards in this and look at the evidence: what do I see? Am I being treated like a human with respect and dignity, or am I being treated like a person that is beneath someone else?
Any crime can be prosecuted as a hate crime if the offender has either:
- demonstrated hostility based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity
Or
- been motivated by hostility based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity
There is no legal definition of hostility so we use the everyday understanding of the word which includes ill-will, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment and dislike.
That, I am afraid, might answer my question.
I feel so gross now like I need to scrub off my skin
add the Nordic Resistance Movement to this mix and I do not know how to human anymore. What is wrong with people?
