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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
A schoolmate of my son, a Palestinian, and two of his friends, also Palestinian, were shot yesterday in Brattleboro Vermont, on the edge of the UVM campus.
I think it's obvious that calling everyone you disagree with an antisemite, a Hamas supporter, etc. enables this kind of terrorism. Regardless of whether we learn the shooting was done by a MAGA terrorist who hates everyone or by a Zionist terrorist whose hatred is focused on Palestinians and their supporters, the cancel culture encourages this. And Palestinians aren't safe at schools and elsewhere because of it.
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Today really really sucked.
First I had to figure out how to tell my son, after he woke up, that someone from his school had been shot. And the boy slept until noon so my wife and I kind of obsessed over it. Then I learned one of my partner's spouses died, someone who has been fighting the same cancer as me. Then I learned my foster sister's brother had died and she was pretty bummed. He had been very troubled his whole life, and was in a supervised living setting, but he got covid and went very very quickly. The way he landed in supervised living was kind of comic - he had gotten really drunk and went to an apartment he used to live in and tried to break in, thinking it was still his. But he was an ex-con and the system didn't want him out in the world any more, and I think it left him pretty depressed.
Sorry to vent. It's just been one of those days.
