The only correction I would make it to point out is that they are not winning. It may seem like it, but they are not. Winners are in a position of strength, not weakness. It is weakness to gang up on a school child about a mural. It is weakness to resort to violence to get your way. It is weakness to scream at people who cannot scream back. It is weakness to attack the weakest and least protected in society (girls, gays, immigrants, trans, BIPOC).
If they were “winning”, this wouldn’t have made the news. If they were “winning” this mural would never have been painted in the first place. If they were “winning” the girl would never have even thought to paint it.
They are losing, and they know it. And this makes them very dangerous, because all they have left is intimidation and violence. But they are not winning. We must never forget that and never give up hope. Times may be dark, but we are winning.
