I Guess We Are All Okay

Just maybe not so great.

Elizabeth Grey

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Image courtesy of Pixabay.

I guess we are all okay with forced sterilizations.

I mean, many of us are not okay with women aborting; but not being okay with that and being okay with this makes a kind of sense, in a way. We are okay with women not having any control over their bodies at all. Okay. Understood.

Or maybe, I guess we are okay with brown and black women being sterilized. In order to be upset about it, we would have to believe they are human.

(We are absolutely A-Okay not to think too much about that.)

I guess we are okay with fires burning in three states, especially if people in those states vote for Democrats. Those Democrats are not okay, anyway. Democrats are no longer people, got it? Okay.

I guess we are all okay with an Attorney General who wants to charge protesters with sedition. I guess it doesn’t occur to us that any of us, no matter what we are protesting, could be charged with sedition; it is the AG’s whim to decide. Even though our Founding Fathers said it was okay to protest, and founded our nation by bloody revolt.

I guess we are totally okay with black Americans getting killed by police at a rate of 2.8 to 1 to whites, because they are black. Okay?

We are so totally fine with the water in Flynt, Michigan, being full of lead, because we don’t live there. Or have relatives there. So we are good. Okay, next.

I guess it’s okay to call any story that does not support our political argument fake news, even though it undermines that other Founding Fathers thing, the free press.

Although we are not okay with burning the American flag, we are okay with people flying a flag with a president’s name on it. And the Confederate flag. All of these flags are okay. It’s okay that it doesn’t make sense, because it makes sense to all the people flying Confederate, Trump, and American flags. Even though the Confederacy and Donald Trump are not our countries. Just don’t burn the flags, please. Okay.

We are definitely okay with mass shootings, but we are so not okay with violent protests and looting, because those are dangerous and threaten our property. We are okay with kindergarteners dying but not okay with…

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