Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a risque birthday note from President Donald Trump to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In July, the Wall Street Journal first reported that Trump had sent Epstein the note written inside of a doodle of a woman's silhouette. The note referenced a "wonde...
Being sad that your willfull ignorance is causing massive harm to millions, isn’t even a start to undoing that harm.
Want to make me sympathetic? Do the work to fix that harm.
How is that not a start? In a world where we are fighting just to agree that a problem exists, acknowledging the problem is a step in the right direction. Is it worth celebrating? No. But saying it’s not even a start is intellectually dishonest. [To say nothing of invoking the harm caused by a mob, incited by grifters, and assigning the responsibility to an individual]
And who said anything about being sympathetic? Do you have to sympathize with a person to not go out of your way to be shitty to them? [If so, that might be something you want to interrogate in yourself]
And again, I’m not saying your anger, frustration, and/or indignation is unwarranted. But none who breathe are wholly innocent. I don’t know anything about you, but I think it is a safe assumption that, if you live in a western country, your family history does not go back more than 4-5 generations wherever you’re living. You likely live on colonized land. [And if not that, then some other industrialized atrocity you are complicit in?] What work have you done to fix that harm? What sympathy should be granted to you, should you ever be called to account? I’m not suggesting you need to do anything other than have some restraint and decency. Is that such a radical or outrageous thing?
Being sad doesnt do a damned thing to undo the damage caused.