#flattening

get her off my screen she's not supposed to be touching my screen

It you say 'it's complicated,' you're deflecting.

If you ask for (or bring up) context, you're defending the indefensible.

In order to defend themselves from social punishment in these circumstances, some people oversimplify everything.

Sometimes it's deliberate, but mostly it's reflexive. War, identity, oppression, and history get flattened in their minds until the world they perceive fits inside a meme, a slogan, or a false binary which is easy to remember, emotionally resonant, and socially rewarded.

Meanwhile, in reality:

The world is messy and nobody is in charge

People are often contradictory and always more than one thing

History is long, complex, difficult to grasp, and gets more distorted with each attempt to flatten it

old art of jude as a living inflatable suit, and splash both Ball'd and flattened.