Roxane Gay

Murder is bad when police...

you know, kill an unarmed Black person or an unarmed person of any race.

It's bad when a husband murders his wife because divorce is just too much effort or because he believes he has a right to do so.

It's just always bad.

And I prefer to talk about that than to be so specific and say, oh, but what about in this instance?

No, I'm actually just against it all the time.

I don't know that they do.

I don't think that they care.

One of the many things the Trump administration has shown us over the past, well, it's more than a decade now, off and on, is that they simply shape reality as they go along.

And they shape their ideologies to fit whatever they're trying to accomplish.

It's all very malleable.

It's all very fluid.

And that's really what's so scary.

They don't bother themselves with reality.

They don't trouble themselves with fact.

They simply...

make the world as they want it to be, and they expect the rest of us to go along with it.

And then when we point out that there is a grave inconsistency, we're the problem.

We're un-American or we're uncivil.

And I firmly believe that's the most confounding