This is why it’s so frustrating to see well-meaning neighbors fawning over National Guard soldiers because they smile at us and offer donuts. The palpable relief white ppl radiate when offered any opportunity to surrender our agency and lick the boots of cishet strong men w/guns…

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

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