Of course I'm a "nicer" person in person than on Twitter If I'm stuck in a physical interaction with someone I think is reprehensible, and there's no easy way to gracefully exit, of course I'll try to be civil if only as my kneejerk initial reaction It's not, like, a good thing
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Whenever some kind of protest goes on long enough there's ALWAYS some kind of peace summit where some famous person gets invited to have lunch with the bad guys and comes out going "Okay they were actually really nice, let's stop the negativity" Even though nothing changed
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"I'm the president of a gay rights org and I had lunch with the CEO of Chick Fil A" Good for you, put it on your Instagram, who the hell cares
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JK Rowling is almost certainly gearing up extend an invitation to her castle to some trans millennial YouTuber right before Fantastic Beasts 3 premieres Bookmark this tweet and don't fucking fall for it
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But I really hate the cloying liberal takes that all our problems would be solved if we could appoint a bunch of figurehead leaders to gather over a beer and hash things out and become friends Fuck off
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It'd be a great way for a few privileged famous people to cadge free beers It wouldn't solve any problems It'd be a really effective way to make sure problems continue Buying one person lunch costs the powerful much less than giving a class of people their rights
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I'm nobody and my opinion in and of itself does not matter If I'm yelling at someone and "canceling" them it's because of what they did to harm a group of people If you have an apology or restitution to make, you can share it with the whole class or keep it to yourself
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I remember my boss a few years ago was like “we are going to discuss some issues people have had WiFi things at the next staff meeting” which became “we are going to have a series private one on one meetings where everyone talks with me”
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