anyways the next time someone apologizes to you with some hyperbolic tripe along the lines of “I can never apologize enough for the colossal harm I have done” know that naming an impossible goal that one can’t possibly meet is a way to distract you from the achievable goal they don’t want to pursue: comprehensively apologizing to you a way that recognizes the greater scope of the harm and helps provide a coherent narrative for you to continue past the harm.

i’m in trenches you’ve never heard of

james baldwin was so right when he said “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

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