Here in the US, we have so many mass shootings (400 this year) that we barely pay attention to them.

In Australia, shootings are rare. But antisemitic attacks have been on the rise – homes graffitied, synagogues burnt – as they have around the world.

We must not become numb.

Eric Foner, in Second Founding (2019), notes that the only exclusions discussed in the congressional debates on the 14th Amendment citizenship language were newborns in independent Indian nations and those of foreign diplomats, exactly consistent with the traditional understanding of the Amendment

Fuck norms and tradition. Just do the right thing and help people. www.oliverexplains.com/p/eff-rules-...