Getting tired of seeing posts on Mastodon by European men scolding people that they should be more polite, or that if someone categorizes some people as “bad guys” then that makes THEM the bad guys, etc.
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Getting tired of seeing posts on Mastodon by European men scolding people that they should be more polite, or that if someone categorizes some people as “bad guys” then that makes THEM the bad guys, etc.
Maybe sit down and listen instead, huh? Your privilege is showing.
I don’t know if you noticed, but some people don’t want others to exist, or to exist only in a state of misery and subservience. THESE ARE BAD GUYS. You can’t reason with them, because their position is not one built on logic, but dominance. They don’t deserve politeness, only PUBLIC SHUNNING and RESISTANCE. Being rude to them is good and proper, and healthy for the world.
I swear if I have to read another Dutch man lecture me, a person born in Indonesia—a nation the Dutch colonized and exploited for centuries—about being polite…
https://www.humancode.us/2025/09/25/the-politeness-trap.html
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Getting tired of seeing posts on Mastodon by European men scolding people that they should be more polite, or that if someone categorizes some people as “bad guys” then that makes THEM the bad guys, etc.
Maybe sit down and listen instead, huh? Your privilege is showing.
I don’t know if you noticed, but some people don’t want others to exist, or to exist only in a state of misery and subservience. THESE ARE BAD GUYS. You can’t reason with them, because their position is not one built on logic, but dominance. They don’t deserve politeness, only PUBLIC SHUNNING and RESISTANCE. Being rude to them is good and proper, and healthy for the world.
I swear if I have to read another Dutch man lecture me, a person born in Indonesia—a nation the Dutch colonized and exploited for centuries—about being polite…
https://www.humancode.us/2025/09/25/the-politeness-trap.html
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"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed"
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"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed"
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"Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.""
--MLK
