Responding to systemic violence with isolated violence is an act of entitlement, a narcissistic presumption that we alone have seen the truth and have the ‘radical honesty’ to do something about it, as Mangione’s manifesto puts it.
System change requires a lot more humbleness and self-reflection.
System change requires a lot more humbleness and self-reflection.
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Rachel Donald
"It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play," allegedly wrote Thompson's killer. "Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”
Sorry—what?
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