A quotation from Ben Franklin

                                        A Cure for Poetry,
Seven wealthy Towns contend for Homer, dead,
Thro’ which the living Homer beg’d his Bread.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1739 ed.)

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A quotation from Orwell

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

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Addition by Subtraction: The Washington Nationals bullpen is on the road to respectability - MLB

Do not get it twisted, the Washington Nationals bullpen is not great. They will have plenty more nights this season where they throw leads away. It is not

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Disability Belongs Reveals New Virtual Cohort Participants For 2025 Entertainment Lab
#News #RespectAbility

https://deadline.com/2025/05/disability-belongs-2025-entertainment-lab-virtual-1236389449/

Disability Belongs Reveals New Virtual Cohort Participants For 2025 Entertainment Lab

Disability Belongs has revealed the 25+ fellows who will participate in this year's virtual Entertainment Lab

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The Daily Show on Instagram: "What happened to all that respect your trade war was going to get us, Trump?"

70K likes, 1,217 comments - thedailyshow on April 26, 2025: "What happened to all that respect your trade war was going to get us, Trump?".

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A quotation from C. C. Colton

That integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it; and that theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for an audience, could not be depended on in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 236 (1820)

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Internalized #Oppression and Desire for Acceptance

Internalized Oppression: Migrants may adopt the dominant society’s AntiMigrant sentiments to align with mainstream values, distancing themselves from newer or different migrant groups.
#Respectability Politics: Migrants who have integrated or achieved some level of #SocialAcceptance may feel that opposing other migrants will strengthen their position within the host society.

PSA: If you are member of one or more minorities on a fash shitlist, they want you dead. You will not get off that shitlist by being one of the good ones.

The most you can achieve that way is being sorted to the end of the line, and watch the others die while wrestling your conscience that you betrayed them.

You will not achieve protected ingroup status. There is nothing you can do to evolve from subhuman trash to human in their eyes. So drop that respectability. It won't serve you.

The face eating leopards will eat your face, too.
#minorities #FaceEatingLeopards #respectability
The translation of solidarity

From Amsterdam to Jerusalem.

Vashti Media

"The trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support @israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim."

"The trips not only blur past and present Jewish trauma, but encourage visiting Americans to assume an Israeli identity—and the sense of embattlement that comes with it."

Maya Rosen: https://jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-of-october-7th-tourism

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The Rise of October 7th Tourism

Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood.

Jewish Currents