“When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.
Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.
A nation of sheep has a government of wolves. Those who fight for the sheep are dangerous to the wolves. Perhaps… the wolves need a reminder that, at the end of the day, they all bleed the same colour—and the river of blood enriches the soil for the sheep to graze.”
Written during the height of nationwide protests in my country that I had to self-censor and avoid naming it
https://wrzky.com/the-violence-of-stupidity/
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