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No one will win because while we are messing around worrying about skin color and genitals -- climate change; new pandemics; the collapse of pollinators; the acidification of the oceans; the proliferation of nuclear waste; and other similarly critical issues will remain unaddressed and doom us all.
Some variety of "your pet issue doesn't matter because my pet issue exists" has got to be the douchiest response regularly made online. There are more than enough bad things going around for different people to focus on one specific thing at a time.
That's not what this is. This is more "your civil war doesn't matter because we're all going die". It's not an "issue", "pet" or otherwise. The fact that you think of it that way is why it's happening.
We're all going to die, either in wars or starving to death. Within our lifetimes. Don't you get it?
Yeah, I’ve been trying to learn this sentiment a bit more.
Thousands of us feel overwhelmed looking at and responding to violence. Others are super focused on their recovery work to help the world, and thus end up viewing the arrest of one of their (50) colleagues as a “disturbing inconvenience”.
The world isn’t one single needle that’s either getting worse or better.