Patrícia Honório de Freitas

…’m worthy!” do not mean a person really believes it. More often than not, they disprove it, because the person who feels worthy does not need to remind themselves of it — only those who doubt it do. Having no sense of inherent worth — which is a profound kind of inner emptiness — means Americans c…

Hence, obviously, predatory capitalism is one system which has produced cowardice in Americans. But so have patriarchy and supremacy. These three great systems, intersecting, have created a traumatized people. People who, constantly…

…dlers. How repellent. How funny. To be afraid of an infant! But the other half. Ah, the other half. It will not call them concentration camps built by fascists for the purposes of ethnic cleansing and genocide. These words are forbidden. Americans can’t speak them. They will weep and wail and cry — but they will never call things what they are.