Yes. I make my children learn use of weapons, but that really doesn’t even come close to solving the problem. And I guess that’s the biggest place where a willingness to stand up doesn’t really “count” for much; if you’re not there, revenge is cold comfort.
But I’m not giving up. I understand that I was raised to be a post-racist person and the post-racialist world didn’t actually happen. Perhaps dead skills and doomed causes are my métier.
That’s why I want people to move into a different cognitive framework. When we use language that inevitably invokes a certain response, 100% of the time, which invokes yet another predictable response, 100% of the time, and so on, and so on, and so on… well, you already posted the .gif. We all lose.
Curling, maybe? Might often be a big glass window 'twixt spectators and game (that’s just to keep the heat and cold where they belong), but I guarantee no fences.
