otfourever replied to your post: i don't think you hate harry, but you are clearly...
i love harry as much as the next person but the whole ākindnessā thing being put on a pedestal is baffling to me. radical political change and activism cannot be founded on kindness. what has that ever accomplished.
Well the people who are praising Harryās kindness arenāt necessarily seeking radical political change - people have a wide variety of political views.
By talking about niceness in a video tribute to Martin Luther King Harry both suggested that he sees it as part of his politics - and (I think) revealed how terrible it is as a political statement.
I think as a motto for himself there are some positives to be said forĀ ātreat people with kindnessā (although it still leaves me cold), but thereās a lot to unpack in a man telling his almost entirely female audience to be more kind - and the more I unpack it the less I like it.