Everything is terrible, part two Bex Peterson Editor-in-Chief o, this past week has been—no dancing around it—grim. And I think “grim” is honestly an insanely generous understatement. We've seen three acts of far-right terrorism in the US this past week, including a shooting that the Anti- Defamation League has stated to be the deadliest anti-Semitic attack on US soil, ever. Trump took to his Twitter today to blame the rash of recent attacks on the media, what he calls the “true Enemy of the People (sic). As I type this, another suspicious package has just been intercepted on its way to CNN’s worldwide headquarters in Atlanta. Room 1020 - 700 Royal Ave. Douglas College New Westminster, BC, V3L 5B2 604-525-3542 Bex Peterson Editor-in-Chief M editor@theotherpress.ca James Moore Layout Manager M layout@theotherpress.ca Katie Czenczek News Editor M news@theotherpress.ca Jessica Berget Opinions Editor M opinions@theotherpress.ca Greg Waldock Web Editor M webeditor@theotherpress.ca Cover by Lauren Kelly Looking further south, Brazil just elected a fascist: Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain who hates women, told reporters he'd rather his son die than be homosexual, and longs for the glory days of Brazil’s former dictatorship. Trump is a big fan of his. I’m honestly not sure what I intend to do with this Lettitor. Disseminating information is what we do here, but I can understand the mindset of those who think these problems are beyond the scope of our country, never mind our college. If you already know what’s going on, you don’t need me to tell you, and if you don’t care about what’s going on I don’t know that I can convince you that you should. I could type and type until my fingers fall off about what this means for the world, for Canada, @ theotherpress.ca © editor@theotherpress.ca ¥ © /theotherpress f/douglasotherpress Caroline Ho Assistant Editor M assistant@theotherpress.ca Lauren Kelly Graphics Manager © graphics@theotherpress.ca Sonam Kaloti Arts Editor © arts@theotherpress.ca Brittney MacDonald Life & Style Editor M lifeandstyle@theotherpress.ca Isabelle Orr Entertainment Editor © humour@theotherpress.ca the dangerous patterns that are being replicated within our own borders... but I only have so much space, and we only have so much time. The catastrophist in me says we've really seen nothing yet. I’m pessimistically certain that there will be an “Everything is terrible, part two”—a part three, a part four. I think it’s the duty of people in media to address, honestly, what it is we're facing right now. Fascism is on the rise; not just in the fringes of society, but as a tangible political force. This is not something that will just blow over. I’m sure some of us can carry on in happy, willful ignorance. I just don’t think we should. Not if we want to claim that we are, at heart, in any way beings of moral conscience. My thoughts are with Brazil, with Angela Ho Business Manager Jacey Gibb Distribution Manager Meghan Lin Production Assistant Cara Seccafien IHustrator Tania Arora Staff Reporter Naomi Ambrose, Roshni Riar Staff Writers Billy Bui Staff Photographer Jerrison Oracion Janis McMath Senior Columnist CJ Sommerfeld Columnist Pittsburgh, with Kroger, with everyone suffering as a result of incessant, hateful rhetoric. We need to start having frank conversations with our friends, with our family, and with the people within our social spheres about the ramifications of hate speech and how this kind of dogma can so easily poison our communities. These are conversations we should have been having years ago, truthfully. To paraphrase a wise old wizard, we don't get to choose the times we live in. The only thing we get to choose is what we're going to do about it. Bex Peterson Bex Peterson The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an autonomous publication, independent of the student union. We are a registered society under the Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board of directors appointed by our staff. Our head office is located in the New Westminster campus. The Other Press is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters, and monthly during the summer. We receive our funding from a student levy collected through tutition fees every semester at registration, and from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a syndicate of student newspapers that includes papers from all across Canada. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what we will publish, and we will not publish material that is hateful, obscene, or condones or promotes illegal activities. Submissions may be edited for clarity and brevity if necessary. All images used are copyright to their respective owners.