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Ron Stockton's avatar

For the first time in history, we live in a time when very large portions of the world’s population can see those inconvenient truths in real time. It’s getting harder to hide them, it’s harder for the powerful and rich to lie their way around the truth. Their response to those they govern in the white, western world will ultimately be much the same as it has been to the global south in the past. The oligarchs and their servants care no more for us than they do for those they have historically oppressed. Even our whiteness won’t protect us.

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umbra illumino's avatar

We choose blindness over seeing the horror all around us. We think what we are seeing today is new and as if it has never been. When we begin to see what is today we have to also see that this horror has been throughout history. To name a couple, 500,000 children killed in Iraq, I have heard it said that the native Americans suffered the greatest number of deaths/genocide the world has known and yet they are forgotten. It is hard to admit to ourselves that this type of horror is normal and to refuse to see it is to live in mental illusions. It is time to check out of the lies being told by others and those we tell ourselves. To see a change be the change.

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