Hypocrites
This poem is dedicated to a certain kind of American journalists. And also to those who don’t see anything wrong in this.
“The Hitler Youth was such an evil organization,” One of you hypocrites said “Because shoving politics down the kids’ throats is wrong,” You hypocrites said
But I’m sure as hell y’all didn’t say a damn thing When they signed me up to be a “Young Pioneer” at the age of 5 Or when I was forced to join the Communist Youth League when I was 13 Because, you know, shoving politics down the kids’ throats is wrong, Like you hypocrites said
Y’all losing your shit when those felons in Arkansas got executed But when a certain country executes more than all others combined So their organs can be harvested and sold and profited off of You goddamn hypocrites aren’t saying jack shit
Y’all losing your shit when Trump called for government surveillance of mosques But when a certain country has already been doing that for, like, decades With government-appointed imams and government-approved prayers You goddamn hypocrites aren’t saying jack shit
Y’all love freedom of speech and expression, and guess what, I do too But I wonder what you — any of you said When the three guys in Hong Kong just got locked up not long ago Even though their protest was more peaceful than anything you’ve seen in America
Y’all say you detest Nazism and fascism, and guess what, I do too But I wonder what you — any of you said When another kind of totalitarianism has claimed four times as many human lives And yet the “don’t normalize Trump” crowd got no problem normalizing that shit
Seriously, like, where is the condemnation? Where is the outrage? Where, I’m asking you, where on earth did your motherfucking outrage even go?
Yeah, where’s your outrage? Is it on the streets in Tibet that actual soldiers are rolling on in actual military tanks, since you care so much about minorities? Is it with the refugees that China deported back to North Korea where they got executed, since you care so much about refugees? Is it against the forced abortion and forced sterilization of those who tried to have more than one child, since you call yourself “pro-choice”? Or, I wonder, is your outrage in that goddamn labor camp where my own grandmother almost died at the age of 15?
I thought y’all, like, cared about universal human rights Oh wait, I forgot American Lives Matter That’s what you hypocrites actually believe in
You fucking hypocrites