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Written by Christine Johnson on 2025-01-14 at 22:49

4. Showing up makes a difference - at protests, local council meetings, town halls. Authoritarianism rests on isolation. Show up for community. Attend that exhibit for Black History Month. Go to a klezmer concert. Take a class about the Holocaust or women's studies. Patronize your local public library. Volunteer to teach literacy or English as a second language.

5. Humanity is beautiful and complex. Resist easy stereotypes and dig deeper. Whether it's reading books, watching documentaries, listening to folks in your neighborhood, learning keeps you curious, open, and more able to spot misinformation and manipulation.

6. One way humanity is complex is that people and governments really can do terrible things. Power, fear, and envy are all effective motivators, and humans are adept at building and maintaining systems that rationalize those motivations. Racism, misogyny, transphobia, antisemitism, and the rest (and their intersectional forms) are real. Complacency is dangerous.

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