When people post stuff like this, what they really mean is "I'm really pissed that some people have lived their lives in a manner that means they don't need to be afraid of their mistakes coming back to haunt them and I have a need to malign their behaviour in order to feel good
When people say: "I have nothing to hide"
what they mean is: "I am privileged enough to live comfortably within the norms imposed on me, therefore I'm not interested in fighting for your right to privacy".
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Hyperbolehunter retweeted
What I write sometimes makes people angry. Right and Left.
Here's what I've noticed. It's interesting. 🧵
Here's what I've noticed. It's interesting. 🧵
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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" has never been truer. It is time to stand up and push back rather than fear attempts to shame or cancel us. There are enough of us who are this more clearly every day. Do not be silent.
Even before the rise of today's many social activist movements, T. S. Eliot understood such people and their priorities.
Writing in 1950, he said: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
There is little hope of changing such people. But what the rest of us can do is stop gullibly accepting their ego trips as idealistic efforts for others. Above all, we need to stop letting them morally intimidate us into silence about the actual consequences of their crusades.
The time is long overdue for us to insist that they put up or shut up, in terms of hard evidence about results, rather than the pious hopes that make them feel so good.
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Hyperbolehunter retweeted
Even before the rise of today's many social activist movements, T. S. Eliot understood such people and their priorities.
Writing in 1950, he said: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
There is little hope of changing such people. But what the rest of us can do is stop gullibly accepting their ego trips as idealistic efforts for others. Above all, we need to stop letting them morally intimidate us into silence about the actual consequences of their crusades.
The time is long overdue for us to insist that they put up or shut up, in terms of hard evidence about results, rather than the pious hopes that make them feel so good.
Writing in 1950, he said: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
There is little hope of changing such people. But what the rest of us can do is stop gullibly accepting their ego trips as idealistic efforts for others. Above all, we need to stop letting them morally intimidate us into silence about the actual consequences of their crusades.
The time is long overdue for us to insist that they put up or shut up, in terms of hard evidence about results, rather than the pious hopes that make them feel so good.
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I was involved in a claim in which a very promising national level athlete's career was ended as a consequence of a grade 4 manipulation involving C4. Investigating the circumstances around that claim made me swear off of chiropractic instantly, and forever.
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Nothing like fleeing to #London for #NewYears after killing your children. #Kensington
#Kimberleesingler
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#Kimberleesingler
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City I love: Bamberg
City I feel most myself in: Calgary
City I still need to visit: Valencia
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City I think is underrated: Buffalo
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City I love: Bamberg
City I feel most myself in: Calgary
City I still need to visit: Valencia
City I dream of living in: Brugge
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City I think is underrated: Houston
City I think is overrated: Singapore
City I like: London
City I love: NYC
City I feel most myself in: Chicago
City I still need to visit: New Orleans
City I dream of living in: San Diego
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@SaraJama_
Please look up the definition of "#unequivocal".
You're welcome - from the colonial settler system
Please look up the definition of "#unequivocal".
You're welcome - from the colonial settler system
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