When “I Feel So Bad” Is a Hallmark Card Sent by Murderers: A Hypothesis of Repression as Unaffordable Hostility
When “I Feel So Bad” Is a Hallmark Card Sent by Murderers: A Hypothesis of Repression as Unaffordable Hostility This piece will be a hard one to discuss. As we know, we are still fresh in the trauma of George Floyd revisited, one of the most absurd and unbelievable acts of cool-headed police brutality that many of us have ever seen. That someone could be so devoid of empathy and finish such an act without a flicker of conscious humanistic presence passing through their eyes remains extremely disturbing and unstomachable to me. Though I have not been proud of the ways I have processed this entirely, I don’t think there is any clean and noble way to go through this pain without also lacking in empathy ourselves. We must hold tolerance for the ways people go through grief without allowing that grief and inability to process the unprocessable to create more tragedy. Similarly, making rounds I have seen a comic referring to the Daunte Wright case signified below. As we know, in the case the...