re: very political thought
@thefishcrow I think a lot of us did, and a bunch of folks still do.
Even the "civilized" world can be so horrendous to people it can be easier to assume the stories are made up; easier to assume the victims were deserving of punishment than to accept and recognize that things are legitimately that bad for good people.
I grew up with a lot of privilege, and for a while, I saw the world through those eyes. Accepting the raw truth is hard, and hurts a lot. >..<