My Life

 I'm no history buff. I took European history in high school and got really bad grades. I haven't really studied history since I graduated high school. So take this as a layperson's understanding of European history. I know that history repeats. I know what we're seeing now in the USA has happened before in other countries, many times throughout history--both recorded history and lost history. I see the way people talk about Hitler and Nazis and I feel that it is problematic specifically for the reason that Hitler specifically and by extension the Nazi party are often set up on a pedestal of pure, unadulterated  evil. The reason I see this as problematic is because it then becomes illogical to compare any contemporary person with them, because it is extremely rare to find an individual (and rarer still to find a group of people) who embody pure evil. So as strange as it may seem, I believe it is more helpful to humanize them--to the end of understanding how such horrors...

 I was raised religious. In my religion, it is customary for young people (roughly teenage years) to receive a special blessing which is given by a patriarch in the community and typed up and presented as a letter for the recipient to keep. In the one I received as a teenager, one of the lines it included was "stand for what is right even if it means standing alone". This is a message which I have taken to heart since that time. I am a relatively stubborn person and I have a strong sense of what I believe to be right and what I believe to be wrong. And I feel very strongly about standing up for what I believe to be right and denouncing the things that I believe to be wrong.  I understand that there are many reasons people had in '16, '20, and just this year to vote for Trump. I know some people reveled in the way he insults certain groups of people--the bullying he openly and unashamedly engages in. I know that many people are largely unaware of the bullying he does, ...