Mariam’s Reviews > One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This > Status Update

“I’ve spent the entirety of my life stitching together costumes to make Westerners feel at ease in my presence. A massive internal compendium of cultural references and jokes and shorthand and all these alternative means of saying “don’t worry I’m not foreign, I’m like you””

“You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children. Who cares if great distance from the bloodstain middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity. Forget even the dead if you must. But at least fight against the death of your soul”

“"vote for the liberal though he harms you, because the conservative will hurt u more”” starts to sound like vote for the liberal though he hurt you, because the conservative will hurt me more” 👏👏