"set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world" is the next chapter title. That's a surprisingly good one sentence summary of respectability politics, right there.
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that advice effectively invalidates the careers of MLK, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela...and every other activist ever, because no one's house is ever in perfect order. People aren't perfect. You don't need to be perfect to speak against injustice.
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that's just shockingly horrible advice.
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the initial example of someone criticizing the world he comes up with is...the Sandy Hook shooters.
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he is literally arguing that the Sandy Hook shooters are the prototype of all critics of injustice.
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Okay, so he's praising Vaclav Havel and Gandhi. But like, those people were not somehow perfect before they started criticizing the world.
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he says suffering is the norm, but if your suffering is unbearable, you should probably fix yourself.
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it's bizarre that this chapter about fixing the world starts with the Sandy Hook shooters but never once contemplates gun control.
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from Vaclav Havel to Sandy Hook is quite a fuckin' rollercoaster indeed
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