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The Problem With Politeness
Stop thanking me for being polite when I’m angry about injustice —focus on the injustice instead
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1 min readApr 26, 2021
“If you aren’t more upset about the underlying offenses than you are about the tone of the speaker — so upset that you couldn’t care less about the tone: we aren’t in this together — not really. At that point when someone thanks me for being polite, politeness fails me. I hardly ever say thank you. I might give such comments a cursory “like,” on Facebook, but I will not nor will I ever again thank anyone for indirectly implying that anyone who can’t say the same things as politely as I do isn’t making a valid point deserving of our immediate and collective attention.” — Bridgette L. Hylton
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