This week has been incredibly hectic as my lease ends August first. I have spent most of my time packing and getting ready to move out. I am couch surfing for the next 2 and a half weeks as my fall lease doesn’t start until the 18th. So Friday I was packing and getting ready for the move. Saturday I spent driving a uhaul on the highway which was not enjoyable at all.

On to the general rant. This week a clip of Josh Hawley running from the January 6th insurrectionists surfaced and it became a thing for Democrats to post it making fun of him. Politicians I really respect like Nina Turner posted the video mocking Hawley for riling up the crowd and then running away. The mocking just felt so out of place. January 6th was an actual orchestrated coup attempt and it feels so odd to be making fun of Josh Hawley for his roll in this. It feels as though it is being trivialized and not being treated with the true weight of the moment. It feels so chronically online and devoid of humanity. What he did was reprehensible so why are we trivializing it?

My time at Equality taught me a lot about how to interact with people online and in person and when we trivialize people that are part of an issue, whether they are the victims or the perpetrator we are reducing the true gravity of the situation and this feels exactly like that.

Its the same with televising the trial of Alex Jones and the families of the Sandy Hook victims, this is not a spectator sport these are peoples real lives. If you find something wrong treat it with the weight it deserves, and go out and do something.