cleverdevil
cleverdevil

Got sucked into a debate in a community forum about a book with a transgender protagonist being available for kids to read in schools. People are remarkably shitty at the moment.

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jsonbecker
jsonbecker

@cleverdevil sometimes it takes hearing something from people around you and a part of your community a thousand times to create a small fissure of doubt to open thinking on issues that feel core to your moral beliefs. It’s exhausting, but you did a good thing, and maybe moved someone more than you know.

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@jsonbecker patiently listening and providing responses that aren’t interpreted as attacks is tiring, but worth it. I totally agree.

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bkryer
bkryer

@cleverdevil ...at the moment? (eyebrows, look at the eyebrows...)

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@bkryer heh, also at pretty much every other moment? 😂

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bkryer
bkryer

@cleverdevil Let’s maybe say it has been (is?) a long moment.

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kaa
kaa

@cleverdevil I highly recommend reading Whats our Problem by Tim Urban. It goes into why we are shitty…

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bkryer
bkryer

@kaa thx much for the recommendation! 'Dunno why I don’t already know about this guy—gotta get some toast, cuz this is my...no, no I won’t.

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@kaa thanks for the recommendation!

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kaa
kaa

@cleverdevil np, its helping me get through some stuff myself…

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