I’m just exhausted. “Unlike you, I believe the cop at my school is human.” “I just can’t endorse the use of violence.” “We can’t win anything if we’re mean to people.” “Hatred never got us anywhere.”

Oh, where were you when all of the oppression was happening?

“I didn’t agree with that, either.”

Didn’t think to smugly chide those in power, though, now did you? Because that’s inevitable, but our response is unjustified escalation . . .