#Ostracism

Right, queer book people, some thoughts about the own voices queer discourse and why it seemed to hit us in different ways (though we shared a conclusion), and what we
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8. My key aim in this thread is simply to try to stem the tendency of frustrated people to say 'who are these crazy conspiracy supporters?' They aren't crazy. They
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if hungover, rowdy, electricity-less ancient Athenians could do it 2,500 years ago, so can you: a #thread on ancient democracy.#VOTE #democracy #classics #Archaeology #ancienthistory #Elections #Government 5th cent
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1/Bullying has always been a cultural corrective that serves to enforce the mores, norms & rules of the tribe & stamp out deviant, unhealthy behavior before it becomes a danger;
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I know it’s often “men ain’t shit” on here, and while the patriarchy is definitely shit, it’s still Happy International Men’s Day. We need to address the issues they face
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*An appeal to NON-autistic people: please take a few moments to read this thread*We (#Neurodivergent people) were taught early in life that everything YOU (#Allistics) said and did was what
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I was thinking about the major differences between the liberalism of Mises & J.S. Mill & that much of what's wrong with modern liberalism was present in Mill's thought. Private
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Americans don’t like masks because they’re individuals living in a society thst has had its community shattered. Appeals to “pulling together” are empty because there is no together, because there
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A lot to unpack in a small sentence. But I'll say this: cancel culture is far from the rule of majorities. Social media distorts our perceptions so greatly that the
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THREAD on conspiracy theories & attachment. I keep seeing frustrated social media posts asking why people believe conspiracy theories. Answer: It gives a sense of control - includng belonging, predictability
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If you are a famous/semi-famous public intellectual over 50 and you are not aggressively getting cancelled by leftists, then you have been infected by social desirability bias and your ideas
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So if a child knows their parents are very queerphobic and comes out to their parents & their parents subjects them to physical or psychosocial violence, or kicks them out,
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"I ignore the behavior, not the child, because the child is attention-seeking" means "If I think the child is desperately seeking human connection, I refuse to cooperate." Here is an
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The way they’re all calling for civility and attacking ostracism, you might almost get the impression that civility helps them and ostracism harms them, weird. Asking people to make peace
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The MLK quotes *they* won't use but you should know, a thread “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of
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Rowan Atkinson stands by the principle of free speech as he did before a few years back. Then he was lauded a champion.Now the media is attacking him.It's the media
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