• Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Any position of trust or power is one which demands from us a constant scrutiny and a willingness to disrupt a working system in order to weed out abusers. All too often the general populace instead sees these positions as occupied by trustworthy people who are too big and important to face scrutiny, too disruptive to remove. We create these positions, let them fill up with rotten people, then complain when they carry out abuse as if we aren’t holding the gun that just shot us in the foot.