The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.
I simply said what I wish had been said when Kevin and I got married.
This is one of my favourite pieces of this show because “Marriage is like…oatmeal” was introduced as part of the “Holt can’t do emotions” gag
But in this speach, the unusual metaphor is powerful and sincere and heartwarming. And it shows that these writers really understand the character of Holt and the nature of love, and that they are very, very good at their craft.
Yall I’m so proud of my mom let me tell you a story.
So the other day I get a text from mom: “Guess who went to jury duty then promptly got asked to leave jury duty”
I respond “what, what did you do”
“Can you call me? You’d be proud”
So of course I leave my desk and roll over to a conference room to give her a ring. And she launches straight in to it.
“So. I get to jury duty right. I was bitching about it but decided i best do my civic duty. Also the judge was really funny and they said it wouldn’t be too long of a trial so I was like ‘ok this shouldn’t be bad at all!’ Anyway we’re all waiting in line doing like, quick interviews with this guy to make sure we don’t have an agenda or any sort of bias or prejudice, and I’m next in line. And the guy interviewing people is interviewing this woman and he goes..
‘It says here you’re an.. a..aesthetician? So you.. play with make up. Ha, or that’s what I’d say to my wife.’
And his voice was like, oozing with this condescending tone. ‘Plays with make up’ (shes mocking him on the phone) and about his wife no less! So anyway they finish up the interview and I’m next. I sit down and he goes
‘Hey how are you doing today’
‘Good until you made that “plays with makeup” comment.’
‘What?’
‘Oh I mean, that was that womans job, and then you said it was playing with makeup, then you said that’s what you’d tell your wife, it sounded a little condescending’
And he goes ‘wow I guess I should just put a red line through your name then huh’
‘Well you asked how I was feeling and I was told to be honest’
Anyway, I didn’t called for jury duty”
Anyhow, that’s my mom story. The entire time she was like “I’m just so done with men thinking they can talk to women like that. Like my rebellion just came so naturally I thought you would be proud.”
And guess what, I am
Yall, I told my mom over 300 people liked this and her story and she almost cried, thanks for making her day!
Twitter made the Jewish lady that posted this delete it for “threatening violence.”
Her followers spent the rest of the day tweeting this. Trolls couldn’t keep up.
Coming from someone who studies the Holocaust and the history surrounding it, It is important to remember that Nazis were human, not monsters.
It’s important because if we dehumanize them we create a level of separation between us and them. It’s important because if we create that level of removal, we start ignoring the subtle signs of antisemitism because “Oh, well they’re just a normal human, not a monster, i’m sure it’ll be alright.” It’s important because when we create that level of removal, they come back in waves. It’s important because when you create that level of separation, you get the problems that we have now.
There is a very simple set of brain equations involved when we dehumanize the enemy, and it goes something like this:
“Nazis are monsters” “I would not be friends with a monster”
The CORRECT conclusion is “I cannot be friends with Nazis”
BUT PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING THE COROLLARY “None of my friends are Nazis” “…even that one guy who keeps posting ‘ironic’ Pepe memes, who never really grew out of his 4Chan /pol/ phase, and who keeps trying to have really intense conversations with me about ‘globalists’. But he’s my friend! I’ve known him forever! He doesn’t REALLY believe any of that stuff. He’s just kind of an asshole, and we love him anyway.”
This is a very bad corollary. It is an extraordinarily dangerous corollary. When we sincerely believe that we would not be friends with bad people, we ignore the signs that our friends are bad people.
(Friendly note: you can replace “Nazi” above with “sexual predator” or “racist” or “abuser”. Same hat, pretty much. There are very real reasons not to dehumanize the enemy, and they have nothing to do with the enemy’s right to humanity, and everything to do with the enemy’s ability to sneak past our lines wearing a nice-person mask.)
I’m reblogging this to my main blog because it is extremely fucking important.
i dont agree that they deserve to be killed for holding abhorrent beliefs; i’m a pacifist, and i also have known a few people who outgrew being godawful bigots and became decent and lovely people. but they absolutely do deserve harsh consequences appropriate to the individual situation. i would not kill a person for being a nazi, but i would absolutely fire them.
if you think the bad guys aren’t people, you can’t think people are the bad guys.
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