#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.

@ricardoharvin @msquebanh

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.

@counterinduration @msquebanh

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?