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 patiently listening and providing responses that aren’t interpreted as attacks is tiring, but worth it. I totally agree.
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@cleverdevil ...at the moment? (eyebrows, look at the eyebrows...)
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@bkryer heh, also at pretty much every other moment? 😂
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@cleverdevil Let’s maybe say it has been (is?) a long moment.
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@cleverdevil I highly recommend reading Whats our Problem by Tim Urban. It goes into why we are shitty…
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@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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@kaa thanks for the recommendation!
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@cleverdevil np, its helping me get through some stuff myself…
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Also on: jonathan@cleverdevil.club
@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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