I will say nothing new: when the far-right (and increasingly the right) speaks of freedom, it does so from very unfree parameters. It is not a freedom for everyone or for anything. It is what fascists consider appropriate and for whom they deem worthy. They defend the freedom to go to mass, but not to go to the mosque. They eat lamb pastries for Easter, but they are scandalized when Muslims celebrate the lamb festival. They make their children practice a religion without consulting them, but if they have sex education at school, it is indoctrination. They talk about the right to think as one wishes, but they want to ban political parties with a different ideology. They think the State should not interfere in our existences, but they point fingers at people who do not live according to their precepts.
The far-right only likes its own freedoms and its own rights. It makes them break out in hives just thinking that homosexuals can get married, that transsexuals have rights, that women can have abortions. Freedom of expression is only for them, lest someone say something that does not fit with their idea of the world, so narrow, uncompromising, and intolerant that it makes you feel suffocated just thinking about it.
At this stage of life, it is sad to have to remember that the rights of others do not force us to live and think like them. What it's all about is being able to be all together as happily as possible: getting married, divorcing, marching in the pride parade, dressing as we please, speaking without censorship, respecting each other, helping each other, and sharing (ourselves).
We live in times when, if we don't want a gray life, if we want a world of colors, it's not enough to just say it. We have to act. And that is not easy or comfortable. Acting implies giving away one of our most valuable possessions: time. We have to move, get up, and start walking. The sofa will not leave, and it can receive us after productive days.
We also have to share. It's not about doing things our way, but about walking hand in hand with others, with the entire spectrum of differences on our backs. Of course, a requirement for this is to understand, not only that we do not have the truth, but that human realities, at times, do not fit with anything objective and measurable. Different eyes perceive different colors. If we don't stand firm, perhaps we will go from grayness to total darkness.
