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mekka okereke :verified:
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io  路  activity timestamp last week

Periodic reminder: Hate takes effort to maintain.

If it weren't for constant effort by fashy people to lie about Black folk, Brown folk, women, immigrants, trans folk, etc, that most people would choose *not* to support fashy people.

Fascism requires an ongoing cost. Kindness is free!

And kindness is not weakness.

If you see fashy people attacking Black people, or immigrants, or trans folk, it's not kindness to say, "We should all get along!"馃ぁ

That's weakness.

It's kindness to put yourself between the people with less power than yourself, and the people that want to hurt them.

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Professor_Stevens
@Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  路  activity timestamp last week

@mekkaokereke

I had this sign made for my front yard. Please note the second line from the bottom.

Yard sign reading:
In this house, we believe
love is a gift
science doesn't lie
black lives are precious
no person is illegal
you have a right to be who you are
kindness is free, and it pays
you will like our cooking
Yard sign reading: In this house, we believe love is a gift science doesn't lie black lives are precious no person is illegal you have a right to be who you are kindness is free, and it pays you will like our cooking
Yard sign reading: In this house, we believe love is a gift science doesn't lie black lives are precious no person is illegal you have a right to be who you are kindness is free, and it pays you will like our cooking
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The Animal and the Machine
@taatm@mathstodon.xyz replied  路  activity timestamp last week

@mekkaokereke
馃挴 馃幆
Truth proves itself.
Lies take energy to maintain against truth. Humans hate spending energy.

Similarly, hate is a deep emotion and so stronger than most things, but not as deep and as strong as love.

Goodness shares and so is like gravity. Evil is selfish and individually stronger like magnets.

Gravity eventually wins out while magnets do occasionally line up, but mostly they counter and destroy each other.

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MidsouthMouth.OctaviaKeats
@fkaOctaviaKeats@wandering.shop replied  路  activity timestamp last week

@mekkaokereke
I agree with you minus one piece:
Kindness + empathy *can* be work / can be hard for people to muster.
Kindness + empathy need to be learned, practiced, + reinforced too.

#empathy
#kindness
#antifa
#antifascism
#fascism
#resist
#hope
#DoNotComplyInAdvance

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Woozle Hypertwin
@woozle@toot.cat replied  路  activity timestamp last week

@mekkaokereke That made me think of this.

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