Democrats went ballistic this week—as
Democrats are wont to do-- when President Trump hilariously renamed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” after Canada foolishly
walked out on trade talks with U.S. representatives. No one trolls like Trump
trolls, whether it’s in Lake Ontario or the Gulf of America.
Here is a typical rant from a typical progressive
Democrat. Call him Pat Doogooder from Minneapolis, Minnesota (they/them):
I
live near Bde Maka Ska, formerly called Lake Calhoun
by racists in the white male patriarchy. I graduated from the University of
North Dakota. (Yes, I am a proud ‘Fighting Hawk!’) I have many Canadian
LGBTQIA+ friends who find Trump’s action revolting, hypocritical, and illegal.
And likely to exacerbate climate change. I am a trans woman, a birthing person,
who was arbitrarily assigned a “male” designation at birth by cis-male and cis-female
nurses. My parental units saddled me with a birth name of “Lance,” so I had to change
my name to be in harmony with my chosen identity, my truth.
Anyway,
Trump has no right to arbitrarily change the historic given name of Lake
Ontario to Lake America. Native Americans and indigenous Canadians alike bequeathed
that name to that beautiful body of water. Who is Trump to say he has the right
to alter or change long-held names, assumptions and beliefs, anyway? What
nerve! What an ego! Like he can change physical reality and acknowledged facts via
a personal whim!
A very
wise LatinX friend of mine, whose pronouns are now zie/zire, and who is a
chest-feeder who was also hurtfully branded “male” at birth, explained to me
that there is no absolute truth, just each individual’s “my truth.” Yet certain
drag queens, communists, and justice-involved-individuals, like those who supposedly
“did something” on 9/11, are still singled out for harassment by the kind of
intolerant, xenophobic a**holes who would support Trump renaming a lake shared
by two nations. I think everyone can see the hypocrisy.
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