Another January 6th
Jan. 6th, 2022 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineWhat happened on this date a year ago is known too well by now.
Other anniversaries are still noted as well. But the Trump Insurrection - still underway - is the most infamous of them right now in North American and global small-d democratic-minded memories. I've read in The Globe and Mail, The Intercept, and elsewhere about the alarm bells still sounding. The looks by various authors to Rwanda and what used to be the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and how those places ought to have meaning for us all now.
I say this is not an anniversary to celebrate. It should be another "never again" moment. We know, also, that there are still too many who have sworn "forever again and again until WE win!" instead, because they've learned to see the real worlds through the kinds of lenses I call at best horrific. Because the will to cruelty remains persistent in too many human hearts.
The work to contain the will to cruelty continues for us all. Everywhere.
Other anniversaries are still noted as well. But the Trump Insurrection - still underway - is the most infamous of them right now in North American and global small-d democratic-minded memories. I've read in The Globe and Mail, The Intercept, and elsewhere about the alarm bells still sounding. The looks by various authors to Rwanda and what used to be the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and how those places ought to have meaning for us all now.
I say this is not an anniversary to celebrate. It should be another "never again" moment. We know, also, that there are still too many who have sworn "forever again and again until WE win!" instead, because they've learned to see the real worlds through the kinds of lenses I call at best horrific. Because the will to cruelty remains persistent in too many human hearts.
The work to contain the will to cruelty continues for us all. Everywhere.
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Date: 2022-01-06 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-06 05:08 pm (UTC)It is kind of amazing that people can't accept the simple weight of demographics and will engage in "cheat to win", even if they don't see it that way. I guess they view it as "My way, right or wrong", or "God's way", even with no evidence to back it up.
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