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A few days
ago, regarding Donald Trump's abhorrent reaction to the murder of film director
Rob Reiner and his wife, Portuguese journalist Patrícia Fonseca commented that, a few (not
many) years ago, a reaction of this type would have initiated an impeachment
process. This time, there were many people who classified Trump's attitude as
unworthy of the office he holds. However, the truth is that there’s a kind of
anesthesia around what Trump says or does, as if it were something natural or
inevitable, as if it were not possible to demand decency. The same happens with
other politicians and so-called "influencers," thus normalising hate
speech or not challenging misinformation. With all the damage this causes, I
believe it is not due to a lack of sensitivity that most people do not react,
but to a lack of a sense of agency. We don't react because we think it's not
worth it, because nothing will change.
It's a matter of scale. The awareness that, while we cannot change the world, we still have the power – as individuals and, above all, as a collective – to dream, to work for the world we wish to belong to, and to make things happen.
