Rina Answers

this woman could use some respite... "...my neighbors are very nice people. Step away from negative media for a bit and realize the US isn’t some asylum and that most people are good, normal people. Don’t let outrage and hysteric media taint your perspective." Even you will only say "most" people, not all people, because you recognize that it only takes one person to kill 100 others in the space of five minutes. If even 1% of the population is a threat, we are all at risk. You've heard, possibly even said the phrase "this is why we can't have nice things", haven't you? To be quite clear, in my experience "most" people are only kind and compassionate to the people in their in-group. They are cold and uncaring if you are an outsider. Even as a privileged white woman, the abuse and exclusion I've received for my disability and my neurodivergence has taught me that this country is an unkind one, that the norm is to be an a...