feeling unsafe and being unsafe are not the same thing
Paranoia, right? It's a thing that happens, and we know it, and we try not to be hard on folks who make the mistake of overreacting because, inevitably, somebody will overreact. Folks have to tell them and hold them accountable. You fucked up.
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04... Read this and tell me the students talking about their experiences are overreacting. (This is not to slate the movement as a whole: as one guy quoted said, he didn’t see the encampment itself as antisemitic)
<i>Editor’s note: This article deals with topics of harassment, violence, and antisemitism.</i>
If they keep you from participating in society in a meaningful way, they can be? I’m exactly the wrong person to define where the line between them is, but that’s also why I can’t dismiss the former.
feeling | being doubt there's anything i can learn to differentiate between those two
If you feel something, steal something.
100% Those who live in traumatic situations don't know it. I'm almost a decade later and I still go "OH, HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT SIGN!"
Admittedly it takes time to accurately make that distinction and not everyone has that time.
And providing support to those who feel unsafe does not require the same measures needed to aid those who are unsafe.
But it's the feeling that will keep you away from places, events, experiences, occupations etc where you have every right to be. It does matter
Exactly this!