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Anna Wermuth's avatar

As always, you are a compass—every time I read your work I feel affirmed, enlightened by new information, and challenged to keep pushing.

I was thinking a lot about WIWF with this post, and about how Ericka Hart was recently talking about how our government is abusive—how it feels like my experience the last eight years as a young adult, waking up to my mom’s narcissistic abuse and severing ties with her, primed me perfectly to start reading revolutionary texts in undergrad and realize that there’s no charismatic adult in our government who’s going to take care of us. Abuse is abuse, period. My cultivated community of mutual care is the reason I’m alive today.

Of course the difference is that it’s even easier to critique and despise our system because, like you said, it was designed to be horrific, unlike my mother who was obviously not born a narcissist but was traumatized by our society.

Our culture, our government, my colonizing ancestors, the way the US alone has pillaged this world, it’s responsible for all of our interpersonal suffering, our toxic family dynamics etc, I wish people could see that. And the genocide deniers are beyond sickening, there’s nothing I’d like to see more than a widespread embrace of the decomposition of these violent regimes, even if it means losing so much that we hold dear. Palestine already has. I feel more brave when I hear your words. Thank you Fa. ❤️‍🔥

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Sonbol A.'s avatar

Yes to every single thing you’ve written here! There’s an Iranian phrase that my dad used to always say in regard to the democrats and republicans and it roughly translates to “the yellow dog is the brother of the jackal”. They are all the same and all in service of the white supremacist capitalist system. Also, the repercussions of what the Israelis are doing will haunt their own people for generations because you cannot do so much evil and not destroy your own soul.

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