Don't Forget 2020
The "Dumpster Fire Year", the "Year From Hell", A.K.A. 2020, is finally coming to a close. It has been a difficult, tragic, painful year. Throughout the year the internet has been flooded with "f*ck 2020" posts. People have constantly blamed the ever-increasing list of 2020 tragedies on the year itself. Most of these jokes about 2020 being "cursed" aren't meant to be taken seriously, but there is a bit of truth behind them.
It is so tempting to just forget that most of the world (the United States excluded because our individualism can't suffer for the safety of the global community) spent this year in a partial or full lockdown due to the pandemic. It might feel like things will be easier now that the U.S. isn't going to have a pandemic denier for a president. Some people might allow the thousands of global protests in support of Black lives to slip away in the buzz of the end of the year. The ongoing human rights crisis in Yemen might be forgotten. But forgetting the events of 2020 means forgetting the millions of COVID-19 deaths, the hundreds of California wildfires and Australian bushfires, the countless Black people globally who have suffered state violence, one of the United States' most harrowing elections, and many more counts of suffering and stress this year.Blaming the tragedy and pain of 2020 on the year itself is a privileged mindset to have. The jokes that 2020 should just be forgotten or written out of history ignore the fact that a lot of lives were lost and a lot of trauma was endured. Just because 2020 is over doesn't mean that the pain is gone or that injustices have come to an end. We all want an end to the suffering and injustices that were so prevalent this year, but wishing them away won't end them. If you want 2021 to be better, you are partially responsible for making it so.
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