When Adam Serwer wrote "Cruelty is the Point" after Trump was in office for a while, the clarity of what he wrote hit me hard. He compared hate filled MAGA to the old photos of white people laughing and grinning like hyenas at the lynching of Black people. Cruelty feeds these people. Greg Abbott is no different. Two mothers killed in the…
When Adam Serwer wrote "Cruelty is the Point" after Trump was in office for a while, the clarity of what he wrote hit me hard. He compared hate filled MAGA to the old photos of white people laughing and grinning like hyenas at the lynching of Black people. Cruelty feeds these people. Greg Abbott is no different. Two mothers killed in the slaughter outside Houston had thrown their bodies over their children. They died saving their babies. But filth like Abbott has to ring the racist bell. It's "wink-wink-nothing to see here", they're "illegal". The incandescent rage I feel toward these ignorant, hate filled excuses for humans runs deep.
While I agree with what you say about Abbott and his ilk, don’t let them harden your heart with hate. That is their goal. They’re hoping to spread of hate and fear for money and power. We must stand up with love and empathy so we call out their selfish, cruel motives, but don’t become like them in their ways of hate.
I will vote them out, and encourage everyone I interact with to do the same, but I’m careful not to let evil into my heart because it can make a home there.
I wasn’t talking about it from a superstitious “mind of its own” type thing. I was speaking about it becoming a way of thinking. It has been scientifically proven that those who write down 5 things they are grateful for at night begin to look for things during the day to be grateful for. I am just saying I don’t want to become a person whose so cynical and full of hate, that it leads to shooting people who ring the doorbell (ring any bells?). That’s it. Nothing superstitious about how the mind works.
When Adam Serwer wrote "Cruelty is the Point" after Trump was in office for a while, the clarity of what he wrote hit me hard. He compared hate filled MAGA to the old photos of white people laughing and grinning like hyenas at the lynching of Black people. Cruelty feeds these people. Greg Abbott is no different. Two mothers killed in the slaughter outside Houston had thrown their bodies over their children. They died saving their babies. But filth like Abbott has to ring the racist bell. It's "wink-wink-nothing to see here", they're "illegal". The incandescent rage I feel toward these ignorant, hate filled excuses for humans runs deep.
Adam Serwer is one of my favorite writers at The Atlantic, and he's been spot on about MAGA since 2016. The cruelty is the point.
Ditto for liking Adam Serwer.
While I agree with what you say about Abbott and his ilk, don’t let them harden your heart with hate. That is their goal. They’re hoping to spread of hate and fear for money and power. We must stand up with love and empathy so we call out their selfish, cruel motives, but don’t become like them in their ways of hate.
I will vote them out, and encourage everyone I interact with to do the same, but I’m careful not to let evil into my heart because it can make a home there.
I wasn’t talking about it from a superstitious “mind of its own” type thing. I was speaking about it becoming a way of thinking. It has been scientifically proven that those who write down 5 things they are grateful for at night begin to look for things during the day to be grateful for. I am just saying I don’t want to become a person whose so cynical and full of hate, that it leads to shooting people who ring the doorbell (ring any bells?). That’s it. Nothing superstitious about how the mind works.