"The words are always familiar: rights, protection, safety. Words that quietly begin to mean for anyone, except people who look like us. March 15 ... highlighted the pattern: violence, language and dehumanisation as a means of condoning.
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I invite people to consider one thing: that violence rarely appears without warning. It whispers first – in speeches, in comment sections, in policies that quietly divide people into “us” and “them”."
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/15-03-2026/march-15-taught-me-how-to-read-the-world
