When Violence Becomes Normal: Where Do We Go From Here?
“We don’t have to mourn the same people, but we must all resist celebrating their brutal deaths.” In light of the events of the past few days, I feel compelled to speak. I’ve grown tired of politics, it no longer feels like conversation but combat. What once was debate and dialogue has dissolved into rage and extremism. This week alone has shaken us to the core: An innocent woman slaughtered on a train because a monster didn’t like the color of her skin. A man assassinated in public in front of his wife and children because he dared to speak his mind. Children gunned down at school in cold blood..and just a week earlier, other children murdered while they prayed. We should all be asking: how did we get here? At what point did disagreement become grounds for death? How did we normalize celebrating when someone is slaughtered simply because they weren’t “on our side”? Why do we dehumanize one another so deeply that murder feels lik...