A Young Girl Is Treated Badly Because She's Straight In A Video That Gives Us All Some Perspective

As someone who cares greatly about equal rights and equal treatment, I have a lot of empathy for people who struggle for those things. This video really helped me to feel a very small fraction of what many people must experience every day.And then, 20 minutes later, it ended and I got to go back to my regular life, which doesn't involve those struggles for me personally. But not everyone can do that, so I hope this video makes an impact on others the way it did on me. Trigger warning: Violence and suicide depicted.

 Laura Willard
07.08.14
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Like when the Black Lives Matter movement started, many on the right claimed that fighting for black people to be treated equally somehow meant that other people's lives were not as valuable, leading to the short-lived All Lives Matter movement.

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