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Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely
because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist’s every action is necessarily
one of self-defense.

Useless fear for some, the justification for the biggest civilian killings of the 21st century for others. As a political science student just… wow

But terrorism
requires a distance between state and perpetrator wide enough to fit a different
kind of fear. The kind of fear that justifies the creation of entirely new laws, new
modes of detention, new apparatuses of surveillance, anything, anything at all.

I can no more push my fear upward into another echelon of privilege than
those above me can help but let theirs fall, with terrible force, onto the lives of
those below.

So much lives and dies by the grace of endless forgetting

What is earth without art? Just a rock.

Fight for your own soul

The unmaking of meaning

Being the lesser evil doesn’t automatically make something good. And the fact we don’t fight to rise the standards should be unacceptable.