Taryn Thomas
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I was genuinely scared, you know?
Yeah, it's just oftentimes that pressure to feel like you're one of the good ones and the โ
that you wanna be like, I feel like nothing recruits more than wanting to be on the right side of history, like what you were mentioning about David Horowitz.
And so I just like, yeah, sorry.
My friends, I knew that they were going to see this as a moral failure rather than me expanding my empathy beyond having a selective empathy of which certain deaths matter versus which don't.
That was the way that we were operating within the encampment.
Now I have a greater empathy.
And to mourn that publicly, I was genuinely scared.
And so I decided to withhold my beliefs and what I was thinking and my doubts to myself.
And the people that had went to that exhibit were invited by Hillel to go to Israel.
And I decided to go.
And to see for myself, like what's reality like on the ground.
And I think like once I went to Israel, it made me realize I need to start speaking up about this.