trisscar368 I started out reading a fantasy novel. A simple police procedural in a city far away, that straddles an old slow river. But no, it was about ethics. It was about knowing the difference between what's allowed, what's legal, and what's right. And that fairly often those three don't line up. Or it was about gender politics. About the first person in a society willing to step up and say "You've called me by this name, and this pronoun, all my life. But that isn't me. This is me. No, we don't even have that pronoun yet, but this is still me." Or it was about racism. That constant social whine of "well, everybody knows what they're like." The blame game that's based on the whispered mutterings that never have a source, and always boil down to "I'm terrified because they are different. I'm terrified because when I look at them, for a second there I can see myself in their eyes and if I was wrong, then all I've said and done..." It was about giving voices to the voiceless, and hearing how much they've been trying to say this whole time. It was about what it means to be human. I always start out reading a fantasy novel when it comes to Pratchett. And somehow it ends up in a moral philosophy lesson from a professor with a grasp of humanity that still leaves me astonished. Source trisscar368

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#discworld
#terrypratchett
#militantdecency

Terry Pratchett nailed it. This is an excerpt from "Going Postal."

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#pterry
#ethics
#militantdecency

serialephemera Follow Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.

I hope we can agree to disagree. Everyone's entitled to their own revenge fantasies. Mine take the form of #militantdecency; however, I'm not going to be setting policy when the revolution comes. 😀

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated. inspired by "Tolerance is not a moral precept" by Yonatan Zunger ZmemeZ

serialephemera Follow Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.

I'm doing my best to balance my understanding of the paradox of tolerance with my commitment to militant decency.

#paradoxoftolerance
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serialephemera Follow Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.

@jayapal.house.gov, are you familiar with the work of Terry Pratchett?

Many of us learned the lesson of militant decency from him.

I think it chimes well with what you said about harnessing anger during your Resistance Lab training today.

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Srsly Wrong Podcast: "message to my enemies: when the revolution comes you're not just gonna get the wall, buddy, you're gonna get four walls, a roof, clean clothes, good food, education, and quality health care because that's what every human being alive deserves"

More about #militantdecency. 😀

serialephemera: "Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before."

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#gnu
#smallgods
#nonviolent
#civilresistance

serialephemera: "Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before."

@sanders.senate.gov is one of our leading exemplars of militant decency.

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serialephemera "Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before."

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Not being a communist, or even a student of Marxism, I don't feel qualified to answer that.

My focus is on the nonviolent forms of #militantdecency and #weaponizedempathy.

Let's follow up with more political theater.

Make the oligarchs look ridiculous in the eyes of the public.

#militantdecency
#resistance

Nonviolent civil resistance is a form of #militantdecency!

Recommended reading:

"Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know"

"Pranksters vs Autocrats"

We need to weaponize empathy. In a nonviolent way.

#militantdecency

We need to weaponize empathy. In a nonviolent way.

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We need to weaponize empathy. In a nonviolent way.

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We need to weaponize empathy. In a nonviolent way.

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#weaponizedempathy
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#empathy

This gives me pause. This gives me hope. This gives me an intangible sense that the currently intenible is, ever so slightly, just that much closer to the heart.

#tpratchett #hope #love #militantdecency

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"In an age of open hostility, Terry Pratchett's militant decency is more urgent than ever."

#sayhisname
#pterry
#gnu
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#militantdecency
#weaponizedempathy
#angermanagement
#empathynotcruelty
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www.independent.co.uk/voices/terry...

#TimWalz is an exemplar of #militantdecency.

I hope that this tour will inspire folks who never before thought of themselves as activists, organizers, or civil resistors.

Has it truly been 10 years ago today?

My very first #discworld novel was The Color of Magic. Or was it Going Postal? It's been so long I can't remember. Either way, they've all left such an indelible mark on who I've become.

We need more #militantdecency in this world.

#Terrypratchett

Sometimes, those ripples of hope inspire #militantdecency!