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When gratitude practice obscures systemic injustice

My therapist suggested I practice gratitude but I feel angry that I need to be grateful for having clean water and a roof when these should be basic rights.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The individualization of contentment can become a form of political pacification that prevents necessary collective action.

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