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Anonymous wrote:This story has broken my heart for life. I have an understanding I never had as a GenX woman regarding how power operates and I am devastated that this is the world my DD will live in for all of our lives. The architects, beneficiaries, and silent observers of the most grotesque acts of abuse are equally unforgivable if not legally equally culpable of specific cruelties. The lack of large-scale denouncement of Ivy-credentialed professors, of the language of supremacy, and of the governmental failure to appoint special masters to organize and explicate the material is damning. The failure to provide consistent, buildable coverage by the big networks, the NYT and the WaPo are part of an obvious choice to let the victims and those who always believed them still be reduced to conspiracists.
My political awakening is, I hope, similar to others here. This is a rupture, a marking of then and the future. We cannot be “regular” Democrats without being fully complicit with these crimes. The republicans are lost, and we have to accept that too, and prosecute and document everything possible.
This is my litmus test for Dems. Either hold people accountable or get out of the way. Not just accountability for these survivors but for the trauma inflicted on our immigrant communities. Because it’s all the same! I’m so sick of Democrats being just a little better.