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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:05:44 JST StillIRise1963

   There are several things happening these days that I will surely NEVER FORGET.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:05:42 JST Warner Crocker

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     @StillIRise1963 Those of us who don’t shove aside our memories and carry them with us as the scars of experience or the burden of knowledge remain distinctly in the minority.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:09:01 JST Warner Crocker

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     @StillIRise1963 And at this point you’d think there wouldn't be that many asses left.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:09:02 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker It’s all so crazy to me. The willful shutting of eyes will always come back to bite you on the ass.

     Warner Crocker repeated this.
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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:12:09 JST Warner Crocker

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     @StillIRise1963 One of the greatest shocks of my life is how I believed we had moved on to better places only to see how wrong I was.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:12:11 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker We seem to have a never ending supply.

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     Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:12:22 JST Philip Cardella

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     • Warner Crocker

     @StillIRise1963 @WarnerCrocker there's a book called the Big Ones about natural and unnatural disasters that makes the argument that humans evolved to put bad things in the past and essentially forget about them because otherwise we'd fail to reproduce, thrive and eventually exist.

     It makes some sense to me. But like many things we evolved this may be one we need to learn to evolve past especially as increasingly our species is creating the disasters that befall us.

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     John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:22:24 JST John Maxwell

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker @StillIRise1963 Nah. It's always been a compromise. Having the blatant racism shamed into silence was nice, to the degree that it happened, but that's a very small step at best.