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Excellent essay by @ScottGreenfield on speaking ill of the dead.
This exactly echoes something I said to a friend last night
> We are not gracious and civil because the deceased necessarily deserved it, but because we are who we are.https://twitter.com/ScottGreenfield/status/1363459620447129601 …
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3/ Also in my thread from last night: "I think regret and repentance should factor in to moral calculations, and we should strive to exceed our enemy's worst moments, not match them."
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4/ It's quite reasonable to be glad that someone that you think was harming the world is no longer doing so. I'm glad the RGB is no longer on the SCOTUS, and I feel perfectly good about saying that. ...but that's distinct from being glad she's dead.
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5/ If you're a lefty, you think that Rush was doing terrible things - spreading misinformation and a terrible word-view to infect innocent minds. You should definitely be glad that he's no longer broadcasting, and there's no shame in that feeling.
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6/ I suggest that we red and blues should strive to be glad that RBG and Rush are no longer doing bad things but to prefer a world where each of them retired from public life to play with their grandchildren, rather than the world where they died. Not for their sake, but ours.
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