Sometimes it seems like people need reminding that being practical does not require being an asshole. You can close borders politely. You can test passengers coming off planes courteously. You can refuse handshakes nicely.
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I am not one of those civility-above-all cupcake fascist types but there’s conditions/stressors worth letting go composure over, and ones where doing so is a kind of childishness. So expect to be patronized/treated like a badly behaved child if you can’t tell the two apart.
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If you feel like unloading on someone because of what they represent rather than something they personally did, that’s a yellow flag. If that someone is also equal to or weaker than you, it’s a red flag. If you act on the impulse, you’re likely an asshole.
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I already feel like that as a former Rust Belt redneck NeoCon
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