If you come with racist or sexist or transphobic or anti-science nonsense, you don’t become some reclamation project who must now be convinced of anything. You’ve proven yourself unworthy of the effort. You become an object lesson on how to deal with toxicity and ignorance.
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Assholes of the world: convincing you that bad things are bad and good things are good is far less necessary than you think. Now shut up while we talk about you.
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I want to make a world where purposeful ignorance is treated as the problem of the purposefully ignorant, rather than the problem of those their purposeful ignorance is meant to harm. I want to make a world where the response to purposeful ignorance is the correct one: scorn.
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Not to assholes at parties I’m not. Luckily I tend to go to cool parties at which I am unbelievably cool.¹ _____ ¹ cargo shorts, dad jokeshttps://twitter.com/smsteve4/status/1382689461163687944 …
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The people telling me this thread isn’t effective at changing their minds are pretty funny in a way.
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“Morally lucky.” Luck has nothing to do with it. This isn’t a guessing game. Some people believe that other people’s lives matter more than their own convenience, and are willing to change their assumptions and behaviors accordingly. Others don’t, and aren’t.https://twitter.com/briggs_finlay/status/1397338579140022275 …
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I don't try to convince people who have already decided they won't be convinced. I'm making of them. To their face. Loudly.
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Not enough time or energy in the whole world to spend trying to convince stupid people.pic.twitter.com/JiiOnsE0pr
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I'm so stealing that one
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“I’ll mock some sense into you.”
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