#especially when that monster is inside urself
if ur politics are centered in any way on rooting out the “bad” people in the world and then being able to live in a utopia then congratulations, uve ended up at fascism and I am not in any way exaggerating
the only way to truly and genuinely prevent harm is by first acknowledging that all human beings are capable of causing harm to others if given the right circumstances, including u
u genuinely must first understand and accept that if given the right circumstances u personally would harm others and that the only way to prevent that is to be constantly checking ur own behavior and making sure there are safeguards in place to protect people against harm. none of us are immune to propaganda, neither are we immune to causing harm
otherwise, if u believe that any innate part of u (being a woman, gay, a person of color, ect.) means that u couldn’t possibly be capable of harm, then it is only a matter of time and circumstance before u hurt another person, if u aren’t already
