I'll Just Leave This Here

I love my dogs and good music. I loathe double negatives, and I'm learning to be more accepting of Republicans. The content of this blog represents only the views of the author and is in no way affiliated with her employers.

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Something To Keep In Mind About America

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Great War Victory illustration by J. C. Leyendecker, 1918

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Soldiers don't die for your freedoms

Activists do.

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Never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it. It is. It is worth it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton (via dearmrtrump)

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Tomorrow #vote #imwithher (at Manatee County, Florida)

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shout out to all the minimum and insufficient wage workers who still have to work on labor day so other people can have the day off, and also to the underemployed per diem workers who really don’t want and can’t afford the day off and are being denied work they actually want and would eagerly do in order to be paid

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This has got to change.

Celebrate Women’s Equality Day by educating yourself and those around you. We’ve made a lot of progress, but there’s still a ways to go. 

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New music this week from Thrice, Holy White Hounds, Jamestown Revival, The Wild Feathers, and more. - @KarahOnTheRadio

Vote for the #newmusic you ♥ the most.  

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She can't wear her hair in a ponytail or in a scarf? Fine, she'll come to work in a Star Trek uniform, or as evil Spiderman. - @KarahOnTheRadio

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Listen to music this week from Twin Atlantic, Panic! at the Disco, Catfish and The Bottlemen, and The 1975. - @KarahOnTheRadio

Vote on the song you LOVE the most, and the song you HATE the most.

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This advice on how to deal with "racist mouthy twats" has gone viral because it's good advice

Some great advice from Facebook user Paul O’Connor who might make you think how to handle a potentially dangerous situation differently than a straight on confrontation or silently ignoring it. Good advice on what to do when you find yourself near a racist mouthy twat who is spouting out their crap at some unfortunate person. …

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Good advice on what to do when you find yourself near a racist mouthy twat who is spouting out their crap at some unfortunate person.

NEVER engage the perpetrator. He (and it is usually he) is looking for confrontation. Instead speak to the person he is abusing. Say hello. Introduce yourself. Shake his or her hand. And just stand with them. Keep talking. About anything. Weather. Bus schedules. Football. This kind of bullying never works against a group of people having a conversation. Usually a single person travelling or a mom with a kid or maximum, two women are targeted.

Form a group of people with and around them if you can. Don’t tell them they are not alone. Just don’t let them be alone. I speak from experience. Once, I encountered a young girl wearing a hijab being abused as a terrorist by a drunk man on a train. I just went and sat beside her and started a conversation with her. After a while, the dude lost interest. I had a lovely chat with a young student from Qatar. She wanted to study literature while her dad was only prepared to pay for engineering or commerce as he wanted her to join the family business. It helped her feel safe and it expanded my horizons.

This is known in behavioral psychology as “non-complimentary behavior”; by not fueling the aggression of another person and you can flip the whole script of all their expectations, and without any footholds for their aggression (like direct provocation and confrontation/conflict) to launch into further tirades against, the aggressor can’t continue their angry scene-building. The more people who participate in script-flipping, the more successful it gets, as in this post you see with the advice to form a protective group between the bigot and their target for that very purpose.

There’s an NPR podcast called Invisibilia which goes into detail about how it works and what sort of people rely on it everyday professionally and for survival alike, in their Flipping the Script episode.

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Ooohhhh

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I am taking notes. Usually I just go straight to full-on confrontation in these situations as I get so angry, but this seems like a much better option, if I can manage to keep my cool.

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THERE IT IS 

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