Ken Burch
Feb 7, 2025

There are some things on which it isn't possible to be neutral, without being a soulless automaton.

It's not possible to be neutral between antifascism and fascism.

It's not possible to be neutral between antiracism and racism.

It's not possible to be neutral between accepting LGBTQ+ people and wishing them oppressed or even dead.

It's not possible to be neutral between the bullied and the bully, between the hungry and the sumptuously fed, between empathy and cruelty.

Sometimes, it really IS that simple.

Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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