#Pride banners put up in #Langford were #vandalized less than a day after they were first installed 🤬
https://www.saanichnews.com/news/five-pride-banners-vandalized-within-24-hours-in-langford
#yyj #VictoriaBC #vanisle #VancouverIsland #HateHasNoPlace #SupportLGBTQ2 #LoveBeatsHate #PrideMonth #BigotsArentOK
#Canada isn't actually very 'nice':
"Hate crimes targeting people because of their sexual orientation were at record highs in 2021, with 423 #HateCrimes recorded, above the previous peak of 265 in 2019, according to Statistics Canada. Crimes targeting people because of their race, gender or religion as a whole also broke record highs, jumping to 3,360 in 2021 from 2,646 incidents in 2020, a 27 per cent increase. That comes after a 36 per cent increase in 2020."
@msquebanh "Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly, and focused on happier things than 'politics'. They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren't nice people? Resisters." — Naomi Shulman
Niceness is overrated; kindness is what we need.
"At first it was just going to be them."
SearingTruth
@ricardoharvin For a short time I worked with an actual, full-on nazi. The guy was always polite and personable. That freaked me out almost as much as his views.
I love the niceness vs kindness distinction. That’s a great framing. Thank you.
I would argue it's not nice to to look the other way or to not resist in the face of facism.
By that standard niceness is not overrated it's lacking. And that way we can still use the word nice to mean nice without having to redefine it because people completely lacking empathy tries to misuse the word.
But why though? Why do you need to argue against the opinion of a German Jewish survivor of the Holocaust?
What is in your personality that blocks you from understanding the context of this statement wherein the word nice is shown to represent those who "go along to get along", thus being complicit in allowing barbaric atrocities to occur, unopposed, for the reason of not wanting to be considered as unpleasant, not nice?
Did it ever occur to you that you could try to interpret my discourse in good faith rather than bad faith?
Nice has many meanings, and few people would us it in it's original meaning in English. The point remains that superficial platitudes expressed as empty social cues for the benefit of shallow social formality is not to be trusted. So yes it wasn't nice of them they were assholes, because no we shouldn't regard that as nice, at least not in a modern sense of the word. Sure in a more archaic meaning of nice it certainly is, but words change meaning.
Another example of how "nice" is a toxic trait, a selfish thing:
#link: https://youtu.be/g7RAPS8mE94?si=81P6bWdncl-pjBlG
Be #kind, not nice.
PhoenixSerenity
Ricardo Harvin
Sam Levine
SearingTruth
Jeffy 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺
mkb
TransitBiker
Aurin (ki, ki, kis)
counterinduration
Harry J. Bodifée