This is why I talk about how fascism changes us, whether we are conscious of it or not. It doesn't just affect its adherents. It shifts the moral ground beneath our feet and makes us more capable of tolerating atrocity. We must build around our collective well being instead.
https://twitter.com/MsKellyMHayes/status/1316426128421257222
People sometimes hear me say "we must resist the further normalization of mass death" and say it is already fully normalized. They simply are not talking about the level of human disposal, suffering and potential extermination that I am.
Fascism is not the process of people who didn't suffer before suffering alongside those who always have. It involves a lot people who didn't before getting fucked over AND people who were already getting fucked over experiencing new levels of horror, suffering and annihilation.
But the future hasn't been written. There is work we can do, there are relationships we can build. We can strengthen the fabric they will have to rip apart to defeat us. That's hope. And that hope & my community are what gets me out of bed in the a.m. truthout.org/audio/searchin…
There are some things we don't surrender to, and fascism and despair are both on that list. truthout.org/audio/searchin…
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