Ok. Enough replying to others. I want to write something from my own heart: to openly express solidarity for all who are suffering from intolerance and bigotry.

I have lived, worked and paid taxes in three democracies, on three distinct continents. My sexuality is probabilistic but I suppose it is most accurately to be described as bisexual if it is to be described at all. My assigned gender is male and I am a father. I am intensely neuro-diverse and, although my career has reached lofty heights in the past, I've been burned out to the extremes of disability for years, now, and so I am ineffectual in the economy of today. I am an expat living in a land that largely speaks a language that I only began to learn in my thirties — zwar, zu den Ausländern gehöre ich.

I'm a rock climber, a sailor and a dancer. I have been vegetarian. I'm a pacifist. I am a multi-faceted human being – not a robot – and all of the facets are me and many of the facets aren't "proper" in some or other way.

In every way the neo-feudal-fascists care, I should be shunned and hated like the LGBTQ+ people, the immigrants, the disabled, the autistic and everyone who is otherwise "other" – all of whom are being shunned and hated, today.

I look upon intolerance and bigotry and feel that if it happens to anyone and it is wrong, I must care. I am lucky, at present – I live somewhere else and I'm protected – but it could be me.

That's irrelevant: it's wrong that's being done to people and so I care. People have inherent worth and so I care. I hate to see it happening, see them suffering, and so I care.

I can do nothing but care: I have no vote that matters and certainly not there where it might count even only as a symbolic act of protest.

Solidarity! Some of us care. I wish I could do more than care.

It hurts a lot to care. (Neuro-diverse. Autistic. Overly empathetic to the point of pain. I care too much. It hurts but I've no regrets.)

Maybe someone reads this. Maybe they begin to care. Please care! To start change, we need to start to care.