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* Bonus* Carly Speaks - Open Letter to the System's of Silence · Millennial Mustard Seed

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  None. An open letter to a system of
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  silence. You nailed truth in a coffin for
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  circumstantial peace, wrapped it in thin plastic grave clothes
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  and let the stench of rot drift. It was a counterfeit funeral
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  that keeps abuse alive, keeps victims quiet to the perishing
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  comfortable and the system intact.
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  It wasn't your place. God will deal with it.
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  Confrontation is unkind, unwise, unchristian.
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  But let's call some things out for what they really are.
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  A commitment to a bloodline of abusers, A choice to avoid the
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  cost of truth. A calculated silence to preserve
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  the familiar. A relationship with a
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  manipulator is better than solidarity with the crushed.
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  A seat at the table of evil inheritance and a drink from the
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  cup of compliance at the fake curated performance driven table
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  was safer than flipping the damn thing over like Jesus would have
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  done. Diplomacy over honesty.
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  I once excused it too. I told myself quiet support was
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  enough. That the private acknowledgments
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  had substance enough to help me carry the load.
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  But I've come to learn that a silent witness to the truth is
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  no witness at all. Everyone knows first hand who
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  this is. It predates me.
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  It's the voice of a pathology more insidious than cancer that
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  at least dies with the body. This is a curse upon which
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  generations cut their teeth. The sour grapes of coercion and
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  passive nods to false humility, clapping for borrowed
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  spirituality and the relentless pretending has become the
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  noxious gas of telling the truth in secret while standing
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  publicly with the lie. I thought the bond we had was
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  deep enough to hold the truth. But it was only deep enough to
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  hold silence, watching someone bleed while claiming, in a
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  sense, for not wielding the knife, saying nothing while he
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  cleaned off the blade. You were complicit in the
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  violence. Silence is choosing the side, a
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  carefully curated piece that required my cooperation.
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  Today, I know this truth is not safe.
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  Love is not passive, and compassion is not enablement.
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  And I am not pretending anymore. I won't be part of hush culture.
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  I won't protect social circles or leadership optics.
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  I won't smile through discomfort or sanitize my story to make
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  anyone feel better about me. I am not bitter.
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  I'm not even angry. I'm living a very uncomfortable
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  truth and the spell is broken. So if loyalty aligns with the
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  lie, keep it. If peace demands my silence, I
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  revoke it. If comfort demands my
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  compliance, I refuse it. Because the culture that chose
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  to stay quiet and pacified my pain with the wink of a knowing
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  eye was never holy. Duplicity never is.
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  And I am done pretending that it was.