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Today I wrote about the age of billionaire consumption, all the proofs that what they are consuming is humanity itself, and the use of human expression as the best countermeasure in response.
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I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the more honest stories we might tell instead.
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"What I’ve noticed is how frequently “this isn’t us” is said, not as an aspiration to improve but as a denial of responsibility—another way of staying exceptional, another way of demanding first sympathy for a situation we have helped bring about."
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In distancing himself from his earlier support of trans people, James Talarico may have thought he'd keep himself from being cast as Them, but he participated in the exact story that casts him that way.
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I wrote about the necessity of persuasion (and its pitfalls), a disappointing statement from a national figure, and how we might disrupt traditional popular exclusionary and bigoted stories of Them, by challenging them with open expansive stories of Us.
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Well, now it's been 25 years, 3 years since I wrote this ode to remembrance and forgetfulness. And what have we done?
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"I am currently being scolded by conservatives that political violence is unacceptable—which is odd. Unlike Charlie Kirk and the conservative apparatus of which he was a part, I am not advocating for political violence via gun as a core tenet of freedom."
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I'd like you to notice how the idea of apology—which is the suggestion of blame—appears to be the greatest offense imaginable to those who depend on abuse for identity.
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Americans when they discover what a group of fish is called
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"What if you pointed out to me that I have spent all my time talking about the perspective of my father, who is choking my brother to death, but haven’t said anything about the perspective of my brother, who is being choked?"
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"Shame, then, is a human tool—a vital one—for negotiating the borders between ought-to-be and ought-not-to-be. Positive space defines negative space. Demonstrations of decency shames the indecent. Principles shame their lack. Solidarity shames bigotry."
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"Republicans and other supremacists are shameful because of the inhumanity of their supremacy; because they are my fellow citizens—humans within our shared human community—and because they will not be ashamed of themselves, I will be ashamed of them."
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I wrote about LOST some more. Isn't that nice?
The return to the island, and what we can discern from the Lamp Post station and the many pronouncements of Eloise Hawking.
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