If You Were A Dinosaur My Love Analysis

A heteronormative, caucasian, and cisgendered male; this identification is normal. This person has the first say and the final say in any argument. Superior of all ethnicities and of gender; this person is terrified of losing at anything, and are willing at any means to get their way. A hate crime, a topic mentioned in Rachel Swirsky’s, “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” in, which the narrator’s innocent finance undergoes by a group of “malice[d]” men. Minorities are also common victims of such brutal acts of violence, which is the reasoning for why “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” could be used to explore the discrimination towards minorities by white supremacist and/or nationalist. Most recently a rise of white nationalist and/or supremacists have been seen on a broad spectrum of medias. Their objective to enforce segregation between themselves and colored people. Infamously, the events that happened at Charlottesville, Virginia caused an uproar heard around the United States. It began as tiki touched protesting illuminating the night; eerily similar to KKK marchers, at the University of Virginia, to it creeping into the next day. That Saturday, hundreds more would join; from the far right and the black lives matter movement. Acts of destructive behavior & …show more content…
Swirsky’s depiction of the narrator’s fiancé being a furious Tyrannosaurus Rex, instead of a fragile human being is symbolic. The malicious men would never charge at a prehistoric beast, but they would to a person; especially someone different then themselves. They beat the fiancé to the pulp calling them by whatever oppression word they could think of “regardless of whether it had anything to do [with them] or not…” (Swirsky). This is a tactic which, white supremacist and/or nationalist do out of bigotry wanting to hurt a person, and calling them by harsh words is easy; as they see a lesser value to those of colored