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millennial-review:

I’ve been seeing this post a lot and it makes me very angry that you all continue to reblog it. Yes USAmericans cried over 3,000 USAmerican lives lost. They didn’t cry when their government killed thousands upon thousands of civilians in Iraq. They don’t cry now that thousands of civilians have died in Yemen to weapons they manufactured. USAmericans cry when it’s convenient. The white USA isn’t upset for the same reason they’re never upset. This doesn’t affect them. White USAmericans, who are the ones who run the media, don’t care about black USAmericans, they don’t care about Native Americans, they don’t care about Latino USAmericans, they don’t care about the disabled, transgender, or chronically ill people of the USA. Nobody cares about a “sacrifice” they risk nothing for. The USA has an issue with “It’s shocking when it happens to us!”. First it was the arrogance to assume the virus wouldn’t reach the United States, then it was ignoring counsel based on the very developed field of epidemiology. Then there was panic, and then minimization, erasure, lack of accountability as the country realizes that only the most vulnerable are at a terrible risk, and those people are disposable to them. And finally, now, you see the push to go back to some imagined “normal” as the country reorients itself to try to make everyone forget the catastrophic failure this has been AND CONTINUES TO BE . As if the virus hasn’t laid bare every failure of the US government to protect and support the people of this country not only in an emergency, but also at every single point, systematically.