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Why We Will Never Forget—Nor Let You

Margaret Anna Alice

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-amnesty-demanders

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
—Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter & Forgetting: A Novel (Kindle, paperback, hardcover, audiobook)

You want to know why so many people erupt when you say you “didn’t know,” you “were doing [your] best,” and “mistakes were made” so we should forget about it and move on?

Because WE knew, and when we told you, you called us selfish immoral science-denying far-right-wing–extremist anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists.

But we were the ones following the science, and you were the ones following the television. We’re batting a thousand, and your “experts” are zero for zero.

We were like the bystanders in The Birds frantically trying to warn the man standing in the puddle of gas not to throw down his match, only to be persistently ignored until he self-immolates.

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