Some Types Of Pain Are More Valuable Than Others
by David Roth on The Concourse, shared by David Roth from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3ZQZX)
It's both a truism and true that politics is about power, how it's used and who it's used against. But politics are also about the business of pain-about which individuals and which communities bear how much and at what cost, and so implicitly whose pain is worth more than others. Everyone lives in and with this"