2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

The world is an ecosystem, and the administration has sliced connections right and left without regard to the consequences. Ecosystems are fragile. Small changes can have catastrophic consequences. The US will never be the same, and I am grieving today. 3/3

free speech); educational (see defunding grants and closing DOE); medical (see cuts at NIH/CDC and ended research programs); goodwill (see the shuttering of USAID); environmental (see rollbacks of many protections); employment (see mass firings and economic uncertainty). 2/3

-and therefore can be changed.” - Valerie Kaur

this is just the way things are, because it is the way things have always been. Then someone comes along and sparks our imagination, a prophetic voice from the past or a friend on the phone. We begin to see that the norms and institutions that order this world are not inevitable, but constructed-

Because if we are told from a young age that we are “persecuted,” but there isn’t much actual persecution happening, apparently we have to invent it? To create it ourselves in order to justify our own hate and wanting to “shoot for the enemy”? (End)

This idea that Christians are an army at war has done more to divide and ruin than it has ever done to unify or build up. The idea that Christians are at battle in a country where they have had peace for hundreds of years has led to imagining a battle that isn’t there. (Cont)