ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
we're not suggesting that any use of purity narratives leads to dissociative memory issues; that would be ridiculous. it's just a thing that can happen, when the stakes are high enough, when it's done consistently over a long enough period of time, when the underlying neurology is predisposed to it, when there's enough pain involved. that's our personal history, probably not yours.
but building that wall isn't a good thing, even if its harms wind up being less than that for you.