Trauma Begets Trauma

The political expediency of holding one’s nose

Photo by Mateusz Wacławek on Unsplash

I’m seeing the same pattern repeating in nearly all the great, progressive, countercultural, or justice inflected organizations that I’m working to support: infighting. Someone says or does something that “triggers” someone else, and then an internal struggle over righteousness or purity or even just appropriate engagement ensues.