Why Resilience is Overrated
#2: It creates “good” and “bad” survivors
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6 min readJan 6, 2021
Note: This article was inspired by watching a naked man get shot by the Vancouver Police Department. I am ashamed that I watched the video. I won’t link to it here because the news outlet that aired it should also be ashamed. I am now reflecting on all the times that I “behaved erratically”; that I ‘acted aggressively”; and that people called the…