There is a story we are taught to believe about progress.
It goes something like this: things were bad, people protested, laws changed, and the arc bent toward justice. We mark the moments of reform as proof that the system learned, evolved, corrected itself.
But I’ve been sitting with a quieter, less comforting question:
What if reform is not evidence of …
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