We Had to Remove This Post

by Hanna Bervoets

I saw a livestream of a girl sticking a much-too-dull pocketknife into her own arm—she really had to jam it in there before a decent amount of blood would come out. I saw a man kicking his German shepherd so hard that the poor animal slammed into the fridge, whimpering. I saw kids daring each other to eat dangerously large amounts of cinnamon in one go. I saw people singing Hitler’s praises to their neighbors, colleagues, and vague acquaintances, publicly, unabashedly, out there for potential partners and employers to see: “Hitler should have finished what he started” below a picture of a group of immigrants crammed into a small boat. But those are all cop-out examples—you know that, don’t you?

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