cellini's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to become un-hireable I am watching an Avengers movie. Age of Ultron. We're supposed to accept this constant level of danger. This idea that the protagonist is under fire and could die at any moment. I watch this and I feel, "I was there. I was under fire." I still don't know how to go back to normal. I was stalked, to the extent that neo-nazis literally put up posters with my face and description saying that I was a serial rapist. I stood up at the top of the stairs of August 12th and I did my job there. What I gave up wasn't worth it. I was a weekly writer, under contract, for Smithsonian. I had a good career. I did work that was valuable. And then after that newsroom in Annapolis got shot up, people like me who investigated neo-nazis were unemployable. Nobody wanted anyone like me working in their newsroom and attracting attention from the alt-right. I was under fire. I was ok with that. I did my job. Then nobody wanted to hire me because of that. 5:29 a.m. - 2021-06-18 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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