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Suzanne Brockmann's avatar

"What gives people whose ideology observably results in harm and menace and death such an irrevocable right to always have their understandable bullshit spun into the gold flax of reasonableness, and why have you chosen to be their Rumpelstiltskin?"

When I read this, I raised both arms in the air, like I was sticking an Olympic gymnastic dismount, exclaimed "YEAH!" and then went (finally! what took me so long?!) and became a paid subscriber.

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Karen's avatar

I read sections of this multiple times because there are so many great points in this piece. Somehow, "My observation is: people decide who and what it is they want to understand" is the line that sticks with me. Simple, but with deep meaning and consequence.

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