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Author of @WinnersTakeAll (out now from @AAKnopf), THE TRUE AMERICAN, & INDIA CALLING. Ex-@NYTimes. NBC political analyst. TED talker. @PriyaParker's man. Dad.

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    Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 10

    Anand Giridharadas Retweeted Dan Schawbel

    oh yes you can “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually” — James Baldwinhttps://twitter.com/DanSchawbel/status/1039108552122617856 …

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    Dan SchawbelVerified account @DanSchawbel
    You can’t be grateful and complain at the same time.
    4:11 AM - 10 Sep 2018
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      2. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 10

        What kind of critic doesn’t feel grateful for the right to criticize? What kind of gratitude hoards its blessings instead of fighting to give others more cause to be grateful?

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      3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 10

        This is the empty positivity cult that business culture seeks to spread. It is a bad ethic that reinforces power. In the book I write about Thought Leader Adam Grant’s related idea that the best way to seek justice is not think too much about the perp.pic.twitter.com/fXhmrNA0LC

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      4. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 10

        A French journalist once told me, “I finally understood something about America. In America, business isn’t just your economy. It’s your culture.”

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      5. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 10

        In recent years, as inequality yawned and anger swelled, big business and its thought leaders waged a powerful campaign to conquer our culture with their ideas. Ideas that favor power: don’t complain, don’t worry who did it, focus on solutions, this is the best time to be alive.

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      6. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 10

        I wrote my book to probe and begin to dismantle this culture. Everyone wants quick solutions. But first we have to clear the intellectual smog.

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      1. Molly Jong ☠️Fast‏Verified account @MollyJongFast Sep 10
        Replying to @AnandWrites

        Yep, come sit by me

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      1. eunice carson‏ @EuniceCarson_ Sep 10
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        thanks for the time you spent researching and writing your book. after reading your @TIME article, i got the audio and ebook. i couldn't wait for a library hold: 56 book holds on 9 copies of your book. i learned about you this week from my google alerts for social impact bonds

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      1. Gilbert NMO Morris‏ @MorrisMedici Sep 10
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        @DanSchawbel Then how do you raise children? The word “complain” is presumptuous and myopic at once: to challenge one’s country is to be a citizen, to expect from it and seek for it that excellence which is the cause of one’s love. That’s several logical removes from complaint!

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      1. drbc‏ @DBattistella Sep 10
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        The idiocy of Shawbel's statement is staggering. It's also dishonest, which like most self-help happiness fads, drives the 'let's all be grateful' movement. Also, the next person who tells me they're grateful gets blocked.

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      2. simpleelements‏ @simpleelements Sep 10
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        My grandmother always said, “To make something better, view with a critical eye.”

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      1. Patrick Lawrence‏ @thefloutist Sep 10
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        Anand. That Baldwin quotation’s well-spotted and right on the mark. Do you know whence it came? Albest. Patrick.

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      1. Jacob‏ @GlobalCentrist Sep 10
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        That's not very correct.grateful because of the inherent compassion we have within us.criticising because of our inherent intension to see everything in this world through a glass of' transparency & justice for all'.

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      1. Michael Osterman‏ @mosweden Sep 10
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        It is always your right and duty to criticize what you love in an effort to make it better!

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      1. lisa‏ @lisa09831509 Sep 11
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        Improve vs complain. I'm grateful that I can do these both. Get it lol

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      1. chemoshi‏ @chemosh933 Sep 10
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        This guy has clearly never read anything the founding fathers wrote.

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      1. HouseizHome‏ @HouseizHome Sep 10
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        Grateful and complaining, it’s a Jewish art!

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      1. anne andersen‏ @aeanyc Sep 10
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        Yes, you not only can, it’s your obligation as a citizen and a patriot to do so.🇺🇸✊🏽

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