If you’ve been caring and fighting for years and constantly being shit on I don’t blame them for checking out on a country that clearly doesn’t want to be better.
No it isn’t. For the benefit of anyone not intentionally being cold and maybe just having some trouble putting themselves in others’ shoes, I’ll go on.
I’m not from the US, but I completely understand the extreme hurt, alienation, and disillusionment described here. I’ve felt it myself too, from here in Canada. The sense that an entire country might as well have just rejected you personally, with the rise of all those “anti-woke” campaigns and–despite what it should have meant for them-- seeing white women and other people of colour willingly vote in increased numbers (within their respective demographics) for patriarchal white nationalists (along with the poor and middle class once again voting for the least favourable party toward their interests).
That kind of added alienation (because there is always some background alienation to start with, especially for black women) within a land that should feel like your own home, and from people you thought should theoretically have your back? It makes you feel unsafe. It makes you feel like a scapegoat on top of that, when you start hearing talk from DNC people about how they have to stop caring about equality so much. The question arises of whether anyone-- as a matter of principle-- truly cares about justice for you, when you always cared about it for them.
I don’t know how long it will take, but for a lot of people, all the hope that was crushed will have to be replenished.
After Trump won, all the “inflation is a super big deal, a lot of people are blaming Biden” and “Gaza is super important, everyone’s protesting and blaming Biden Harris” stuff completely exited from the American media. No one in America cares about inflation or Gaza anymore, I guess. Everything was kind of quiet for a while, and now I’ve noticed a little trickle of “here’s why all the cool kids are not protesting” starting to come into vogue. This one isn’t the first.
If you pay attention, you can pick out which stories don’t really make sense or have a reason to get created in the way that they are from someone who was just trying to report on reality, and the ones that stick out always serve one and only one side of the narrative.
She gave up because Harris lost, and is “unmoved” by what’s going on.
The entire op ed is saying she just doesn’t care. That’s not the “good reason” she seems to think it is.
If you’ve been caring and fighting for years and constantly being shit on I don’t blame them for checking out on a country that clearly doesn’t want to be better.
That is when evil wins. When the good give up.
Evil has already won, because people didn’t do enough to help them fight it when it could be defeated.
No, it hasn’t won yet, because there is still a chance to fight back. Remember Luigi.
No it isn’t. For the benefit of anyone not intentionally being cold and maybe just having some trouble putting themselves in others’ shoes, I’ll go on.
I’m not from the US, but I completely understand the extreme hurt, alienation, and disillusionment described here. I’ve felt it myself too, from here in Canada. The sense that an entire country might as well have just rejected you personally, with the rise of all those “anti-woke” campaigns and–despite what it should have meant for them-- seeing white women and other people of colour willingly vote in increased numbers (within their respective demographics) for patriarchal white nationalists (along with the poor and middle class once again voting for the least favourable party toward their interests).
That kind of added alienation (because there is always some background alienation to start with, especially for black women) within a land that should feel like your own home, and from people you thought should theoretically have your back? It makes you feel unsafe. It makes you feel like a scapegoat on top of that, when you start hearing talk from DNC people about how they have to stop caring about equality so much. The question arises of whether anyone-- as a matter of principle-- truly cares about justice for you, when you always cared about it for them.
I don’t know how long it will take, but for a lot of people, all the hope that was crushed will have to be replenished.
After Trump won, all the “inflation is a super big deal, a lot of people are blaming Biden” and “Gaza is super important, everyone’s protesting and blaming
BidenHarris” stuff completely exited from the American media. No one in America cares about inflation or Gaza anymore, I guess. Everything was kind of quiet for a while, and now I’ve noticed a little trickle of “here’s why all the cool kids are not protesting” starting to come into vogue. This one isn’t the first.If you pay attention, you can pick out which stories don’t really make sense or have a reason to get created in the way that they are from someone who was just trying to report on reality, and the ones that stick out always serve one and only one side of the narrative.