But to this day I can’t think about that debate without thinking about them. It was so incredibly avoidable. So many of us sounded the alarm, but we were ignored. And we continue to be ignored as the win is being painted into history as a “victory” pure and simple. It was not. The lives of a vulnerable minority should never have been put into the hands of the majority in a media landscape that is all too happy to be powered by the fumes of a toxic debate. So, while everybody else was doing victory laps, I could only seem to grieve.
