The rights of people
Who differ
from your view of normalcy
Or worthiness
are not a political
debate.
But for a moment
I’ll
P
L
A
Y
along
and
pretend
I’d waste my time
Debating
stripping
the people
of
Their
Rights
But first allow
Me to ask you this
if a specific
type of person
doesn’t exist
By your own words
Why would
You
waste your
time on
debating their
rights?
I’ll beg to be
The first to say
It’s easier for the likes of
you
To
Deny someone’s existence
before you admit
You view
things with a bigot lens.
Poet’s Note
“Lens of Bigotry” was written on 1/11/2026 for the moments when people try to dress cruelty up as conversation. Someone who claims a group of people does not exist, yet still wants to debate their right to live, to love, or even to their identity .
That contradiction is not confusion, it is a strategy.
Denying someone’s existence makes it easier to deny their humanity. Once a person becomes an idea, a category, or a talking point, stripping their rights starts to feel reasonable to those already looking through a distorted lens.
This poem is not here to negotiate anyone’s worth. It is here to expose the trick. To ask why some lives are treated like a hypothetical while others are assumed to be real by default.
If this piece feels uncomfortable, that discomfort is doing its job. It means the lens is being questioned.
