Problems can co exist. Someone’s bad day is not resolved by the fact someone else has it worse.
And yet a new type of political discourse seems to think it does. One that transforms individual hardship into strange tokens or top trump cards of suffering, to be smuggly laid down upon the pains of another.
It’s invalidating.
‘Well, at leat you’re not…’, they say.
A race where woketivists try to out-woke each other within a weird war of who has it worse…
Why?
Illustration by Jony at the Noun Project