Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough?
iii@mander.xyz 1 week agoI just can’t understand how people actually let this happen
One if the reasons I gather is complete desensitization to language like bigot, racist, ablist, … to the point it’s in popular usage as a joke.
You also noticed how people call eachother that for joke?
erev@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I do, and logically it makes sense. I’m not historically inept, I largely saw it coming. But the very human part of me wanted to believe it couldn’t happen. And that same human part of me is trying to grapple with the fact that it did.