History, literature, and pluralist society: The quest for better justice within our petty world
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One of my favourite short stories is difficult to track down. As far as I can tell, you can still only find Stephan Enter’s “Resistance” in Best European Fiction 2010. On the surface, it’s a simple tale, with a narrative structure easy to anticipate. And yet, sometimes it’s the simple tales that feel timeless. Sometimes the familiarity of a story isn’t a mark against it, so much as a reminder of how little humans change.
"prison conditions don’t usually register in the minds of people who suddenly give a hoot about incarcerated people only when the topic can be used to score a “win” in anti-trans discourse."
Nail on head. Not just for this issue but many, many others. I talk to people about stuff like Prisoners' Justice Day and they look at me like I have three heads, as if caring about the incarcerated makes me, I dunno, foolish or a bleeding heart. A lot of people have forgot to hate the sin and not the sinner.
"prison conditions don’t usually register in the minds of people who suddenly give a hoot about incarcerated people only when the topic can be used to score a “win” in anti-trans discourse."
Nail on head. Not just for this issue but many, many others. I talk to people about stuff like Prisoners' Justice Day and they look at me like I have three heads, as if caring about the incarcerated makes me, I dunno, foolish or a bleeding heart. A lot of people have forgot to hate the sin and not the sinner.