Inequality

I am a writer, and in November of last year, a story of mine called Fall in the Box was published by a publisher by the name of Tell-Tale Press. This post is not about my piece but instead is about the circumstances of its no longer being available from the (former) publisher: I am not privy to the entire account, but it is my understanding that said publisher made an inappropriate comment or comments associated with (though not, apparently, about) the heinous murder of George Floyd and was subsequently removed from Facebook; from what I have read, the language was hateful. I don't know how that booting off of Facebook led to the implosion of the publisher's website, but there you go; everything is connected at some level.

That is not the point, however; it is only the setting. The point is that in a fit of anger, a person said something that she shouldn't have and was destroyed, quickly, ruthlessly, and completely; the public outcry was swift an brutal. And effective. That being the case, why is trump still in office? It seems almost arbitrarily inequitable. The publisher—and again, I don't know all the details—was attacked and punished for something that she put out on the internet. I'm not going to offer an opinion about whether the comment(s) warranted the resulting online assault (it seems that they probably did). Again, though, that is not the point. Instead, what I wonder is why such social and public annihilation is not visited upon the one person who deserves it most, donald trump? This is a man who lies shamelessly and who avails himself of every opportunity to divide our country. A man who almost daily offends one or more populations. Where is that ruthlessness? If this brutal condemnation is to be turned on a person who even now is wracked with regret, whose livelihood has been nuked, and who may very well never again be able to practice her passion, why is dt still getting away with his clownish maliciousness?

Be fair. There is no black or white in this world, there is only grey. And when it is next decided that an individual's dark-grey action should lead to his or her being dropped in front a set of figurative cross hairs, remember that the single darkest grey in the United States is still roaming free, doing more damage than ever, and—smug, idiotic grin in place—not only getting away with it but reveling in his invulnerability.