Real Hope
We’re all hungry for hope, and malign actors are meeting that need with a proliferation of fake feel-good tales. False hope is more dangerous than no hope at all, so I only share stories I can verify — and that keeps getting harder. Today we offer a credible year-end wrap up of hopeful immigration stories from a trusted source. If you need a bit of a boost, browse through!
How to do it:
America’s Voice is an immigration-rights group that just published “A Year of Solidarity: 12 Stories of Hope as Neighbors Stand Up for Immigrant Neighbors“. It isn’t just 12 stories of hope, though. Each item has multiple linked news stories! Share this post widely for people looking for authentic stories of realistic resistance.
Once you locate a few sources you trust, they’ll lead you to more. Chop Wood, Carry Water introduced us to America’s Voice. Commit to sharing only verified information. The problem with fake feel-good stories is they give us unrealistic ideas of what helping looks like. Just as airbrushing has given us unrealistic ideas about human bodies, fake stories of hope give us the wrong ideas about how to stand together. At best, they make our efforts feel inadequate. At worst, they push us in entirely wrong directions. There are other issues (like the environmental harm caused by the AIs that created most of them now) but we’re asking you to take a stand for reality. It matters.
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