"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”."

#March15 #TheyAreUs

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/15-03-2026/march-15-taught-me-how-to-read-the-world

March 15 taught me how to read the world

The day of March 15 never ended for Sara Qasem, who lost her father in the Christchurch mosque attacks. On the seventh anniversary, she writes about how that day changed the way she reads the world.

The Spinoff