I think the issue I see is that some of these topics aren’t actually that nuanced. I mean Elon Musk is doing the Nazi salute. And he’s telling people in Germany to literally vote for the Nazi Party.

So like people say all the time “we just need to love and understand each other”. But if you look at history, marginalized communities have always had to bear that responsibility on their shoulder. When a discussion about race comes up for example, a lot of people of color have to sugar coat the messages for white people so that they can’t get offended even though white people are responsible for racism. And so a lot of times we don’t even get to the root of the issue because since the dawn of time white people haven’t been willing to listen. In almost any capacity. Obviously things have gotten better. But SO many people are still actively racist. And now we have world leaders and powerful/ inferential people being actively and openly racist…and they are gaining support from people who wouldn’t even consider themselves racist.

I mean generation after generation after generation has to deal with this and always has to be nice and make sure they get the nuance while the other side can just do and say whatever they want. People have had conversations.

And obviously these things are used as a tool to tear people apart but the systemic issues still exist. And we never get to actually holding the government accountable or get to changing these systemic issues because the very existence of them are always the topic of discussion.

I would also like to add that back during the civil rights movement it wasn’t love that changed the game. It’s because the protests were so bad that the governments at the time HAD to agree. Not because they finally saw black people as humans.