You Were Warned. You Just Didn’t Care.

Since at least 2015, some of us have been warning you. We told you this wasn’t just political noise. We told you this wasn’t about “both sides.” We told you this wasn’t about economic anxiety or free speech or edgy jokes on the internet. We told you it was about supremacy—white supremacy, Christian nationalism, the revival of fascist ideologies dressed up in American flags and social media memes.

We warned you. You rolled your eyes.

We told you that the people saying the quiet parts out loud—the ones joking about genocide, praising dictators, and dog-whistling their way into mainstream politics—weren’t “just trolling.” They were testing the waters. And you helped them. You normalized them. You said things like, “They’re just being provocative,” or “They’re not serious,” or worst of all, “You’re overreacting.”

But we weren’t overreacting. We were reading the signs. Some of us learned them from history books. Some of us learned them through generational trauma—passed down from Native ancestors who survived massacres, African ancestors who were chained in ships, or immigrant ancestors who fled fascism. Some of us are all three.

And now? Now we’re here. We’re watching elected officials joke about feeding people to alligators. We’re seeing commentators openly say “we didn’t kill enough Indians.” We’re hearing genocidal fantasies wrapped in patriotism and broadcast-like entertainment. And still—still—some of you remain silent. Some of you even laugh.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t about free speech. It’s about moral rot. It’s about cowardice and complicity. It’s about how quickly “Never Again” turns into “Maybe This Time” when it’s politically convenient. And every time you dismissed the warning signs, every time you changed the subject, every time you “didn’t want to get involved”—you became part of the problem.

You want to know why some of us sound so angry now? Because we are angry. And we have every right to be. We’ve had to listen to our identities, our histories, our very lives be turned into punchlines by people who hold real power—and then watch people we once trusted act like it’s all just politics.

It’s not “just politics” when someone fantasizes about extermination. It’s not “just a joke” when someone celebrates genocide. It’s not “just words” when those words echo with centuries of blood and suffering.

You told us we were being dramatic. We told you this was exactly how it starts. You laughed. You shared the memes. You voted for the people making the threats. And now you want to act shocked when the masks come off?

Don’t.

You don’t get to act surprised. You don’t get to claim innocence. You don’t get to sit comfortably in the center anymore while people like Laura Loomer, Ann Coulter, and Nancy Mace spew bile that would’ve made Joseph Goebbels proud.

You are celebrating the opening of a concentration camp and openly following after an administration that is on the hunt daily to destroy others, and those of us who said they were Fascists were calling it for exactly what it was.

The fact that you didn't recognize reality for what it is doesn't excuse your continual support of this regime.

You made this bed—some of you by building it, others by lying silently in it.

But understand this: the rest of us aren’t staying silent. We’re calling it what it is. Supremacy. Fascism. Evil. And we are done trying to convince you gently.

You don’t get credit for waking up late. You don’t get forgiveness without accountability. And you definitely don’t get to rewrite history to make yourselves look brave.

You were warned. You just didn’t care.

Now is the time to come to the right side of history before you condemn us all.