unsee

We can’t unsee the genocide or pretend that it’s somehow moved us to a point where we can start imagining a political future without taking stock of this moment.

But the largest error that lies in the hope that people will eventually come around to feeling compassion for the suffering of the “other”—the refugee and the migrant and the trans kid and the woman with an ectopic pregnancy—is that it ignores that we are being trained every day in the opposite direction: We are being conditioned to unsee even those people for whom we felt some kinship a mere eight years ago.

It’s sort of like there’s an image that you can’t unsee.

Now that we’ve unearthed these lines, we can’t unsee them.

Ms Lucas said there were "scars we cannot unsee" and she was struggling with trusting others and herself.