I Can Not Breathe. Notes On Violence

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I Can Not Breathe. Notes On Violence
I Can Not Breathe. Notes On Violence
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One way or another, the rapist is always to blame for the violence. Whoever says anything. No matter what "weighty" and "logical" arguments are voiced to you. Otherwise, the life of one becomes more important than the life of another. Otherwise, someone else gets the right to strength and power - infinitely

Then you can safely and with a clear conscience rape a woman, because "it was not necessary that way …". And here you can substitute any kind of continuation: laugh loudly and “unequivocally”, dress “too” in red and “hint” with a hairpin, accept a martini glass as a gift and thus “sell”, say “no” only once, because it is just "flirting and price tagging." Or maybe you can't look like someone's ex in appearance. And you never know what other "compelling" reasons may be.

If the rapist is not guilty, then it will be possible to calmly accuse a homosexual man of lying in a coma after being beaten by a crowd of strangers, because he himself “provoked” it. Because he was wearing a pink sequin shirt. Because he speaks somehow "not like a man." Because he took a loved one by the hand on the street. Because I was not ashamed.

Then it will be possible to pour the hated semolina with lumps into the child, stuff the bitter Brussels sprouts, fried onions that resemble annelid worms into the child and not pay attention to the gag reflex and tears, because "this is necessary and it is useful." You can beat him because he does not understand how to solve the equation with two unknowns or because he cannot remember at the end of the day that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the legs. You can apply force to him "with the best of intentions", because "otherwise he does not understand."

You can also beat your wife almost to death, because the food is not on time, it calmed the child badly at night, and the husband went to work in the morning, and not sit at home and “do nothing”. You can deprive your wife of money for what you need, because she "does not know how to talk" and is all so impudent.

Every time someone turns a blind eye to violence, it blooms even more magnificently.

The video in which George Floyd dies is one of the scariest I've seen in recent times. Until chest pain. And that's what violence looks like.

It clearly shows what a feeling of unlimited power is. And lack of respect for the life of another. And what is the feeling of one's own superiority.

Yes, the story of George Floyd shook the public consciousness. But it's not specific about him. The point is in hundreds and thousands of the same stories somewhere nearby. These are stories about beatings, rape, murders by those who are "higher" and who "can". Violence is always violence. No matter how someone would like to justify or whitewash him.

You can fantasize as much as you like about the fact that “this does not happen to good and innocent people,” but this warm fantasy is shattered at the very first encounter with a person for whom his own righteousness is more important than the life of another. With a person who thinks he has a right. Everyone can be guilty of something. There would be a man, but for what to kill him - there will be, remember?

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