• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. Your silence in the face of injustice is what enables abuse.

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      13 hours ago

      Yes! All that civility and decorum training. I’ll add to yours “Don’t speak ill of the dead.”

      Stops people from learning about intergenerational trauma and fascists/terrorists in the family. Sure, my grandad was wildly abusive to his daughters and disgustingly racist about black people in Nova Scotia, Canada (the ones in Jamaica are fine btw). But he’s dead now so “we don’t talk about that.” Totes cool to mention his army medals tho.

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      15 hours ago

      Yeah and now people cant handle a reality check, and I’m the asshole for giving one rather than reflecting on what they did wrong