We live in an age where violence is so abstracted and symbolized that you can claim that 12,000+ human beings blown to pieces in air strikes is acceptable, moral even, and people peacefully blocking the entrance to a building is grotesque, terrifying violence
We live so far from real fear that we can tell ourselves scary stories about what mean protestors are going to do while we sanction unspeakable, dehumanizing violence against those outside the fence
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