listen I know this is naive of me, but I still don’t understand how we grew up with so much media emphasizing kindness and compassion, emphasizing the value of human connection, and people STILL choose to be bigoted and hateful and I really don’t think I ever will

Sometimes I feel like it was one of those “if you have to say it, it ain’t true” deals.

I grew up with both Japanese and U.S. culture, so I had my share of Disney and Ghibli, so to speak. I consumed plenty of content that made it very clear how being awful to our fellow human beings, to animals, to the planet, etc was for the bad guys so, how did we get here?