4.
“Not being willing or able to just be superficially nice in social settings. Sometimes it’s okay to just be pleasant instead of making your unique and specific viewpoint heard.”
“I talk about this all the time. So many more people seem to have an Instagram or Twitter mentality that everyone NEEDS to know all of their thoughts and doings. But on the other hand, I’m all in favor of calling out bad behavior now instead of ‘politely looking the other way.’ The same social prohibitions against speaking out made things less confrontational and fostered lots of racist, sexist, and abusive behavior.”
