2/ someone can be interpersonally pleasant, a nice neighbor, or have “good values” and still find themselves executing unspeakable horrors.

never forget that given the right conditions, that someone could be YOU.

1/ when confronted with so many overt examples of malignant horror, it can be easy to forget that a lot of the most heinous acts in history were committed by those who embodied what Hannah Arendt termed “the banality of evil.”

“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” -James Baldwin, “Down At the Cross”

I can’t post >60sec videos on here, but I wanted y’all to have this resource I made for you anyway! Use it, distribute it, make your own, but we all need tools to train our critical thinking!

Mushroom Auntie reporting for duty!