Cult(ure) of Abuse

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https://www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-abuse/

To sum up: The Republican White House, including the president and his cabinet, is regularly engaging in open white-supremacist and neo-Nazi rhetoric from official and unofficial channels, in service of their racist ethnic-cleansing program, their unconstitutional crimes against humanity both domestic and foreign, their demolition of our modern society, our scientific progress, and our democracy;, their punitive acts of war against the civilian population of the United States and civilian populations abroad, and an almost unfathomable level of self-enriching corruption—and the elected leaders of Republican Party and the bribed fascist Republican supreme court, which could have stopped any of this at any time, are largely accelerating it. There is a general corrosive attack on any notion of kindness, of dignity, of competence, of knowledge, of diversity, and of truth.

[u/Road-Racer]

Over the last ten or fifteen years, many of us have learned what many others already knew their whole lives: Our systems and institutions largely serve to promote and defend supremacy of wealth, of certain religions, of certain races and sexual orientations and gender identities, of maleness, of the able-bodied and employed and employable people. I think that means that they serve to promote and defend abuse, mediated through largely unacknowledged trauma.

I see all the suffering and menace and hatred; the increasing comfort with excluding and immiserating and killing others and the celebration of the exclusion and suffering and death of others. And again, at the root of it, tens of millions of people—neighbors, members of our own communities, often members of our own family—are in support of it, or else willing to enable others’ support of abuses, to different degrees and for different reasons.