Friday 21 November 2008

(Obvious) parallels

If willfully ignoring the WWII holocaust turned people into unspeakable assholes, then willfully ignoring the holocaust in the DRC turns us into unspeakable assholes. In fact, we may know more than they did.
And yet, appart from supporting NGOs, I've no idea what we can do. Sometime I feel so utterly disempowered that I wonder if I'm not uncounciously wishing that there was nothing I could do. In a way, that would be sort of convenient. Hey, I'm a nice girl. I even say it when a cashier operator gives me back too much change, and do I ever...

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