Let’s talk about language, shall we?

There is pathology embedded into the ways we talk about this crisis. If I see one more “this is a war” headline I’m gonna scream.

Even our schools use words like “deploy” when other words work better. They could have said “distribute” here

Talking about a virus as an enemy takes the onus off other enemies. Like systems and institutions that actually get set up to harm people.

Even our “wars” that aren’t on a battlefield are misnamed.

War on drugs = a war on people

War on immigration = a war on people.

Since the first colonizers stepped foot here it’s been war. We’ve had, what, only 25 years of the US not being engaged in physical war?

The wars that America inflicts on its own people are the most nefarious. We placed into systems all kinds of mechanisms to produce war.

This virus isn’t a war. The systems that harmed people in the first place to create disproportionate outcomes is the violence; it is the war.

“America is not at war. America IS war.” — Sora Han

Listen for the militaristic ways people talk about a pandemic. It tells you a lot about their ideology.