Chauvin and Penny have become white knights, saviors of civility, while Both Floyd and Neely were stripped of their humanity to become hashtags.
I can’t help but see the obvious parallels between Neely and Floyd, and the glaring ways in which the media, the police, the public, and their perpetrators
refused to treat them with a shred of human decency.
Holmes actively harmed people. She is set to report to prison in a week for her crimes. And yet, because she’s blonde and white, gets to be called “normal” and “gentle and charismatic” in print beside photos of her even blonder kids and supportive partner sitting barefoot on rocks looking like a Ralph Lauren ad.
We out here humanising robots and dehumanising trans folks.