How old were you when you first learned that the real monsters come in human forms?
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@Cassandra A young humanitarian.
@PhoenixSerenity Still seems like it shouldn’t be the outlier response.
started around 6/7, when I learned my family came from a far away country that Britain invaded for Empire, that if you had different skin colour you risked being bullied, and that even though there were trains and cars and aircrafts that you couldn't just travel to another country for holiday (let alone live there!) without paperwork.
Also we were supposed to believe in Jesus but there was war with folk who also apparently did but in a different way and actual bombs going off in the streets, more war in some other countries because of oil and that was on telly every night, and then you learned that there was an atom bomb which could blown whole cities to ash..
@vfrmedia @Cassandra @PhoenixSerenity I think when I was around five years old, I realized that the people around me would kill any animal that got in their way without a second thought, whether it was a spider or a kitten. I was very sad, and it left a mark on me.
But they weren’t really bad people. It wasn’t until later that I met people who view everything around them—including other people and animals—as things they can exploit.
@vfrmedia @Cassandra @PhoenixSerenity When my neighbours adult daughter was murdered in 1982, I was about 8 https://www.rte.ie/archives/2022/0617/1305469-phoenix-park-attack/
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Hella traumatic for a child 🫂
@PhoenixSerenity @vfrmedia @Cassandra I grew up In Ireland and we were aware of the almost daily killings in occupied Northern Ireland and because I lived near a road to the north the almost daily police and army checkpoints going into Dublin as I went to school
@PhoenixSerenity probably when first hearing a less self-censored version of what the more extreme neoconfederates at religious school wanted and what they feared would or would never happen, around 11. Actually probably earlier, but it was much more vivid when it reached those first detailed descriptions.
@PhoenixSerenity 16 when I've learned about SouthAfrica apartheid. Later I became obsessed with Holocaust everywhere.
@disisdeguey2 I remember being sickened when learning about SA apartheid in my early teens.
@PhoenixSerenity When I watched a documentary about WWII death camps in my early teens.
@PhoenixSerenity 10... or 12... idk... and then I confirmed at 16...
@passocacornio I was pretty young too. Probably around 10 & confirmed a few times since.
What humans are willing to do to each other (and to Earth) is more horrifying than any fictional horror film that I've ever watched or read about.
@PhoenixSerenity meow... yeah... and they always do some heinous act in the name of "protecting the children" (I am not even talking about the current political landscape)...
more than 20 years passed and I'm still dealing with it...
@passocacornio Yup. Protecting the kids. Supporting the elderly & disabled more. All lies!
I'm with you in talking about decades of this same shit. With 2 different types of conservatives in power.
@PhoenixSerenity Less than seven. An ad on TV about human suffering, and I started bawling, and everyone else in the room was like “what?”