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Show us something that hurts.
Look, police in Tibet "pursuing" nuns. To hit them with batons.
Over in Iraq, you've got casualties from a funeral turned suicide bombing.
Or an 8-year old Yemeni girl who was forced to get married. She went to the court and filed for a divorce herself, but only after the marriage had been consummated. She accused her husband of beating her. (And don't forget the polygamists in Texas.)
That's what hurts--not a single death or injury, but an ongoing system of injuries and deaths. Whole cultures engaged in constructs of cruelty and violence. It only hurts when we look, though, and in America we live a life protected from ugly sights. If we don't want to look, we don't have to. Plenty of news outlets are happy to let us turn our gaze away. It's like the tree falling the forest. Do we imagine if we aren't there to see it, the violence isn't happening?