I have always been disturbed by this transition, by the reality that often the only way to capture someone’s attention and to encourage them to recognize their own internal biases (and to work to alter them) is to confront them with sensational stories of suffering.
This was a quote that really stood out to me. In order to believe that all of these -isms are bad, that the violence and trauma that comes out of them are harmful, those who have been impacted by discrimination based on their race, class, gender, sexuality, and intersections of these are forced to relive their suffering to prove the harm it does. It’s as if their suffering puts the humanity that has been unconsciously removed for being different back into them.
