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- Now is the time to resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just. Now is the time to speak up and to wear as a badge of honor the opprobrium of bigots. Now is the time to confront the weak core at the heart of America’s addiction to optimism; it allows too little room for resilience, and too much for fragility. Hazy visions of “healing” and “not becoming the hate we hate” sound dangerously like appeasement. The responsibility to forge unity belongs not to the denigrated but to the denigrators. The premise for empathy has to be equal humanity; it is an injustice to demand that the maligned identify with those who question their humanity.
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camarillobrillo · 2699 days ago · link ·
I share your apathy. We can't lay all the blame on the media though. They're just giving The People what they want. As long as people keep demanding sensational, emotional, echo chambery garbage then that's what mass media will give them because that's what sells. It is up to the individual to choose how they want to be informed, and unfortunately many people are undereducated or ignorant or both. Early education is key but I don't have much hope for that either. They want us just smart enough to run the ratrace but dumb enough not to question a needle up our asses.