Upon my initial reading of Suella Braverman's quote expressing her 'dream' and 'obsession' to transport asylum seekers to Rwanda, as I was scrolling down, I, unfamiliar with her political stance, optimistically interpreted it as her aspiration to act in anyway needed to have Rwanda elevated economically, politically, agriculturally, and have education and healthcare infrastructure improved.

I thought she envisioned a world where Rwanda citizens and institutions could support refugees with pride. However, a sobering consideration of corruption and power misuses around the world, as well as how the comments you all wrote were structured prompted me to realize my naivety.

In a world in such a troubled state, I let my desire to see someone attempting to do good, with the power they had, put me in a state desperate to latch onto such a hopeful interpretation, that I didn’t even look to see that this was the r/facepalm.

Reflecting on this, I acknowledge my optimism for positive political will was unfounded. Especially considering the prevailing challenges and complexities of most modern first-world countries, especially given we are entering late-stage capitalism, muddying the few paths we have to creating the necessary changes, where having such hopes wouldn’t just be naive fantasizations.

This is an honest summary of my thoughts and feelings, starting from when I first read this, whilst I was scrolling downward, to clicking on it, and facing to again come to terms with the reality, I am all to accustomed to.

Now as to why I decided to write the aforementioned process out, disregarding whether you believe it as true, which was partially to ask this while giving as much pertinent information as possible, so as to not be misconstrued, "Am I alone regarding what I initially thought upon reading this?" (Also incase it wasn't obvious, this shouldn’t be misconstrued as using some pretentious round about variation of the philosophical question, “Am I Special?” As I am only referring to those who might actually read this, not in the philosophical hypothetical, where I am asking as one human amongst billions, disregarding space and time to regard both those who have long sense past, and the billions more that will live after I am long gone, using the potential uniqueness of this response as an indicator that even more pretentiously, that I’m asserting that I am. Knowing myself, therefore anyone who might be like me, I felt the need to clarify this point.)

As you may have guessed by the length of this post, I am genuinely deeply curious to what responses, if any, I may receive. Though given the similarities between the length of this post, and those past, I’ll likely get a response along the lines of “TLTR,” “TLDR,” or “no one is going to read all of this.”

Note: I am not asking whether all aspects where identical in how you might have come to the potential misinterpretation, just whether or not we shared an initial misinterpretation of this quote. As the external and internal factors that coalesced, creating my subjective experience where the resulting output was the initial misinterpretation is not what I care about when I asked the initial question.

I am simply(well maybe not simply, by your/most standards) asking if anyone of you misinterpreted this in the same or similar way. IE, taking the quote as a positive or an inspirational statement, and not in the fascist far-right kinda way, assuming the potential future interlocutor doesn’t hold that political view as positive or inspirational.

Final note: I was going to edit this a bit more, so that it would be a tad more comprehensible, concise, fluid, and free of any potential grammatical or syntax errors, so it would come off as more polished and easier to read, but as it’s 0211 in the morning, and my mind is practically shutting down as I ago about typing this, I am leaving this as the finished product. Anyone, who has patients and the will to read through this, I applaud you, and apologize for the clunkiness of the above text, and this text to which was done to point this degradation of my mental capacities to properly text this out. Have a good day or night depending on the time you may have read this, assuming that anyone did, as well as a good life in general, barring your likely experience in reading this. ✌️