Who among us has conflated the myth of innocence with the reality of goodness? With who does or doesn’t deserve to live? Let us cut through the bullshit and say what we know. None of this, right now, is about who does or doesn’t look like a child. It is about what the idea of a child embodies and how easily the American imagination can be seduced by what it believes a child to be. Many of us came into the world screaming and then spent our living enduring the world’s shouting back. There might have been innocence once, before our eyes adjusted, before our memories took shape. Back when our
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