Watching the storming of the US Capitol, a phrase kept turning over in my mind. “Evil can only be defeated by kindness between people.
Kindness demands courage.” The words were said to me by Ozlem Cekic, a former MP in the Danish Parliament, who after years of daily abuse and death threats simply for being a Muslim in public life, began meeting her aggressors for coffee.
Kindness may seem a strange thing to talk about at this dangerous moment. But how we respond matters more now, perhaps, than ever.
Anarchy in the USA wasn’t an end point in a culture war, but a flash point in tensions building across the world. The Trump riot was in itself repolarising.
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