If nothing else I hope folks snap out of it a little and listen to marginalized communities. Screw your avoidance of discomfort, your refuge of disbelief; you can't seek personal safety amidst the same Horrors that need defeating
It's gonna be your job to fight the false comfort of polite tolerance
It's gonna be your job to fight the false comfort of polite tolerance
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Two shot to death and left inside torched cars. Two firearm "suicides". One lynched, hung from a tree. One collapsed on a bus, ruled an OD
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/puzzling-number-men-tied-ferguson-protests-have-died-n984261
And I wondered what was stopping them from seeing what I was seeing, other than an... willfully ignorance? An allergy to reckoning? A fear of admitting to reality?
The inner mantra of 'I'm safe, we're good. I know bad things come after this but if we just power through and don't think about it... The infection is spreading, but we're good. We'll be in danger, but not yet. We're fine, ignore, we're fine...'
It's real. Now stop negotiating with it
It is: "You need to confront current events, politics and behaviours as a reality that needs challenging, rather than do mental gymnastics to accept them as unchangeable norms"