Have you ever just read something and thought to yourself, “our country is doomed”? If you haven’t, then you obviously did not see yesterday’s tweet by the Women’s March Twitter account. Apparently, the price of $14.92 is too traumatizing to see in print form because it triggers emotions or some other illogical, nonsensical hogwash, according to the tweet.
“We apologize deeply for the email that was sent today. $14.92 was our average donation amount this week. It was an oversight on our part to not make the connection to a year of colonization, conquest, and genocide for Indigenous people, especially before Thanksgiving.”
At first, I thought this was a parody. It sounded like something out of the Onion or Babylon Bee. No way could a serious organization be so maniacally deranged that it has now resorted to numbers being too politically incorrect, right? There cannot be a group of people alive who seriously feel triggered over a number being $14.92 because it is the year Columbus set out on his voyage and discovered the Western hemisphere. Yet, here we are.
Thankfully, the tweet drew criticism. There were many people who responded with tweets mocking and ridiculing it. One of the best was by user @markdcorcoran, who tweeted, “I’ll give you $17.76 to delete this tweet.” Yet, unbelievably, there were still over 3600 people who liked the asinine tweet.
According to its website, the Women’s March describes itself as an organization with the objective “to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events. Women’s March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.”
However, if the number of $14.92 is too emotionally traumatizing for its members, the sanity and mental stability of the group need to be legitimately questioned. Being traumatized over $14.92 is not “dismantling systems of oppression.” It is being so severely indoctrinated that you are not mentally stable enough to exist in society safely.
There is no soul living today in the Milky Way galaxy that should ever take anything the Women’s March says seriously ever again.
