Lage: The bulk of the piece is a feel bad piece, and also staving off what i was already beginning to hear. Lage: I wouldn'thave been able put this into words as i was writing it that day. It was born out of a fury at that denialism. He says he's making an argument for for hope moving forward.
Rebecca Traister is a writer for New York and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Her latest article is "The Necessity of Hope."
“A big motivation of this piece, which I think is framed in this there’s still reason to hope is actually the inverse of that. Which is: Let us be crystal clear about what is happening, what is lost, what is violated. The cruelty, the horror, and the injustice, and that is it only moving toward worse right now. And to establish that to then say that it is the responsibility to really absorb that, and then figure out how to move forward.”
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