“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say
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they call me a dumb lib for using they/them pronouns for people, when I literally learned that as basic grammar in 3rd grade?!?!?
nov 20, 2024, 12:22 pm • 3 0 • view
For 12 years they made me stand up every morning, face the flag, and pledge myself to "liberty and justice for all" in an echo of a 1950s hope it would make me anti-communist. No luck on that last bit, but even as dense as I am, I can see the lack of wiggle room in "for all".
nov 20, 2024, 3:09 pm • 3 0 • view
I like that
nov 20, 2024, 7:22 am • 0 0 • view
I simply asked myself "What would Luke Skywalker do in this situation?" and front a distance the Pentagon looks a lot like a Death Star.
nov 20, 2024, 6:42 am • 4 0 • view
Sadly irl he’s a Sith.
nov 22, 2024, 12:08 pm • 2 0 • view
This, this, a thousand times this.
nov 21, 2024, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
She here
nov 20, 2024, 4:49 am • 0 0 • view
Hi can you retweet? t.co/Px2bYSXfhI
nov 20, 2024, 11:38 am • 0 0 • view
Yes! My mum always taught me that, and I took it literally because it makes sense. Shame so many people missed this.
nov 20, 2024, 11:34 am • 2 0 • view
When I realized that the golden rule was probably invented by bullies, given how it was used to shield them, and that it was better to treat others as they treat others.
nov 20, 2024, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view
“Treat others the way you want to be treated” pretty much gets thrown right out the window once you realize most people in this world are fine with hurting others if they can get away with it and it benefits them.
nov 19, 2024, 5:57 pm • 30 2 • view
It gets thrown away the moment someone is a masochist
nov 20, 2024, 8:43 pm • 1 1 • view
I would say “sadist” is actually the word you’re looking for but I guess it goes both ways. It’s like the song goes: “Some of them want to abuse you. Some of them want to be abused.”
nov 21, 2024, 12:22 am • 3 0 • view
I thought masochists were the ones who liked pain?
nov 21, 2024, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
They are. Sadists are the ones who enjoy inflicting pain.
nov 21, 2024, 1:25 am • 1 0 • view
WAIT WAIT WAIT. I think we both messed up. I mean like having pain not inflicting it. Y'know the people who like being hurt? THEM. That's what I meant.
nov 21, 2024, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
Although don't ask me I'm dumb
nov 21, 2024, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
It’s always felt pretty fucking straight forward honestly.
dec 2, 2024, 2:53 am • 0 0 • view
Yup
nov 20, 2024, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not the word of a higher power that makes me want to help others - it is the golden “gosh darn empathetic common sense” rule
nov 20, 2024, 12:00 pm • 2 0 • view
"life isn't fair" why not? Why aren't we actively working to make it fair? You literally told me "sharing is caring" my entire childhood and then called me a pinko commie lib for repeating it as an adult?
nov 20, 2024, 12:33 pm • 9 0 • view
Was raised on the 10 Commandments, the 12 points of the Boy Scout law, and the Girl Scout law. Was told that this is how you get ahead in life. I see now that this is not true. Lie, defraud, bully, and hang out with others who do the same.
nov 20, 2024, 12:37 pm • 5 1 • view
I love this. Followed.
nov 20, 2024, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
nov 20, 2024, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
LIKE COME ON
nov 19, 2024, 10:54 pm • 2 0 • view
My Baptist Bible School taught me a song, “Jesus loves the little children, red and yellow, black and white” and I just kept believing that is truly consistent with the New Testament
nov 20, 2024, 12:17 pm • 1 0 • view
"Don't treat people like things" seemed straightforward to me.
nov 20, 2024, 2:25 pm • 2 0 • view
This! My source for this wisdom was Sesame Street.
nov 20, 2024, 12:51 pm • 2 0 • view
My mother firmly insisted that all of her children be treated equally even though grandma had favorites, and I never forgot it
nov 20, 2024, 2:13 am • 6 0 • view
This and the news of Diallo
nov 19, 2024, 6:34 pm • 3 1 • view
📌
nov 26, 2024, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Totally!
nov 20, 2024, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Human decency. It used to be something we strived towards.
nov 20, 2024, 12:04 pm • 3 0 • view
And we avoided those who didn’t.
nov 21, 2024, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sure i understand ur reply. We are currently facing a tranny now.
nov 22, 2024, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
nov 20, 2024, 11:50 am • 9 1 • view
I was taught the Golden Rule (yes I’m that old. 🤪) Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In other words kindness not nastiness .
nov 20, 2024, 5:56 am • 7 0 • view
Seems like for many that is a very hard concept.
nov 20, 2024, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Same
nov 19, 2024, 4:43 pm • 4 0 • view
A quote I read every morning first thing. “If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.” Roberto Clemente
nov 20, 2024, 2:38 pm • 2 0 • view
I seriously weep for the kids of today who are going to see that being an asshole is what gets you through in life.
nov 20, 2024, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Preach, my mom would always say be kind to anyone even on there bad days!!
nov 19, 2024, 4:38 pm • 23 2 • view
Some weirdo rightwinger will read this and think ‘the women—how do we get them to raise children, but never speak aloud?’
nov 20, 2024, 4:59 am • 19 1 • view
I was a little older, Third grade. The Catholic school I attended had a poster prominent in the halfway outside my classroom with The Golden Rule. That's been my life's mission ever since.
nov 20, 2024, 2:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah.. apparently Sesame Street radicalized me. Who knew?
nov 20, 2024, 12:32 pm • 2 0 • view
This exactly this
nov 19, 2024, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes! And the cartoons we watched were like “we have to care for everyone!” Rainbow Brite didn’t understand Stormy, but respected her. The Carebears helped everyone and understood depression before kids had words for that.
nov 20, 2024, 8:54 am • 2 0 • view
"What radicalized you?" I have been seeing incredibly skilled and intelligent people fight to keep their heads above water and still have the energy to comfort other struggling people my whole life. People who can smile and still give you a ride, no questions asked. So, I guess basic empathy
nov 19, 2024, 8:59 pm • 48 5 • view
same.
nov 20, 2024, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Finally a place that feels like home, you are my people and I’m so grateful to have this platform. We must make this platform about love and peace and a world where we are treated equally. I don’t want to live in a world where money and fame and power are what dictates everything. Peace and love.
nov 20, 2024, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I was taught that you never leave a person behind so I just kept up with that teaching.
nov 20, 2024, 1:13 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s difficult to love others when you don’t love yourself. Their internalized hatred spews out into others.
nov 19, 2024, 10:23 pm • 10 2 • view
Hear hear. Kindness and generosity shouldn't be considered "radical", it should be considered "Basic human decency" and "the admission price for living in society".
nov 20, 2024, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey, wanted to let you know that some pro-zoo and pro-pedo accounts are retweeting your stuff using it as fuel to say what they do is ok.
nov 21, 2024, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
The modern twist appears to be, "Do unto others before they do it to you".
nov 20, 2024, 12:27 pm • 3 0 • view
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten-Robert Fulghum
nov 20, 2024, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
type shit
nov 20, 2024, 5:57 am • 1 0 • view
I had the same life lesson. It seemed, and still does, as the best lesson. 'Do onto others as you would like done onto you'. It is a no Brainer in my book and still serves me well to this day. 🐶
nov 20, 2024, 2:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Ah yes, the golden rule. What a concept.
nov 21, 2024, 4:55 am • 1 0 • view
A foreign concept to some...
nov 21, 2024, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. 👏 But when Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders painted an obvious answer to why the government doesn't do enough to help or why we're not progressing due to corporate influence. It all started to click. I wanted my politicians who actually ran to help people not make money.
nov 20, 2024, 10:51 am • 7 0 • view
Bush the Second railing about how "people of faith" should band together and exclude people like me.
nov 20, 2024, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I took my kid to every vote with me - first one, she’s in the infant car seat, last one she’s a senior in high school. And THIS year, she got her own vote. She genuinely cannot understand why anybody sits them out. Follow me for more parenting tips. 😜
nov 20, 2024, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Then I looked around and saw all the other kids fighting over toys and eating paste. Should've realized then that we weren't gonna make it as a species.
nov 20, 2024, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep, it seems reasonable to live this way. Too many people play prisoner's dilemma all day long, expecting to be screwed over so try to do the screwing first. It must be exhausting
nov 20, 2024, 7:09 am • 4 0 • view
It is exhausting, not only for them but for everyone around them.
nov 21, 2024, 3:29 am • 1 0 • view
Literally though, I have what I *think* is a real memory from around that age, of realizing that I was on the side of the picked on, and vowing to always be so. I think I might have even said it out loud. I don't remember the words but I remember the moment and the feeling.
nov 20, 2024, 2:13 pm • 4 0 • view
I was just thinking about this last night and came to the same conclusion.
nov 20, 2024, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Star Trek - I am still waiting for that better world of acceptance and wisdom they promised me ✨✨✨
nov 20, 2024, 8:38 am • 12 1 • view
My dad raised me to treat everyone from the janitor up to the CEO with the same respect. So glad I absorbed his values, because it makes my life much richer to have all kinds of people in it.
nov 20, 2024, 3:52 am • 5 0 • view
Thats wrong; you should treat the Ceo with LESS respect and the janitor with more respect.
nov 20, 2024, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
When I was a nurse, I tailored my response to what the individual needed. Marginalized people always got more respect, deference, and questions on what they specifically needed, because they usually don't get that. I got stories out the yin yang....
nov 20, 2024, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Janitors are useful
nov 20, 2024, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Amen. If the janitor quits you'll notice it in 24 hours. If the CEO quits....
nov 20, 2024, 10:42 pm • 4 0 • view
I old enough to remember when they taught being kind to others in church. Apparently that has changed dramatically in the past 50 years.
nov 20, 2024, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
If only we could all figure out how much sense this makes. The idea could become traditional instead of radical.
nov 27, 2024, 12:24 pm • 4 2 • view
Exactly! I keep telling people the current definition of “woke” has effectively been reduced to respect. But the notion of “play nice” may be more apt.
nov 20, 2024, 12:29 pm • 2 0 • view
My dad- Uber conservative Christian- can not understand why I am progressive. I’m like, am I the only one who read that book you kept pushing when I was a kid?
nov 20, 2024, 12:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Relate so hard to this. Just had a massive fight with my mother about how woke is evil. Sigh. 😔 I don’t even know who she is.
nov 20, 2024, 12:50 pm • 2 0 • view
I used to have these fights with my dad and then finally realized there wasn’t any point to it. I’m not sure giving up was the right thing to do but it saved my sanity.
nov 20, 2024, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I was also taught to share in Kindergarten but some people seem to have a problem with that too.
nov 20, 2024, 3:41 am • 9 0 • view
My church told me "Love thy Neighbor" for decades. They didn't always live it, but they said it. I took it harder than some folks, I guess.
nov 24, 2024, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Well said💞
nov 22, 2024, 2:47 am • 0 0 • view
When did basic human kindness become radical? 😢
nov 20, 2024, 2:19 pm • 3 0 • view
I love this. Thank you!
nov 21, 2024, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Same. Catholic school. Who knew?
nov 20, 2024, 4:39 am • 2 0 • view
“The Golden Rule”. I haven’t witnessed it lately. But I am all in for it coming back, and taking its final rest in this world 🌎
nov 20, 2024, 9:54 am • 3 0 • view
I realize not everyone followed this mantra, but it took me 35 years to stop being surprised when someone was so selfish. It was frustrating and disappointing but also freeing.
nov 19, 2024, 6:14 pm • 26 2 • view
similar note: I was taught to be have, be kind be polite and be helpful and then I saw question time at Parliament House and I thought "That's it, these fuckers gotta go"
nov 20, 2024, 7:47 am • 1 0 • view
Seasame Street. I foolishly thought they were showing me a real place where people of different backgrounds all came together and treated each other like fellow citizens and humans.
nov 20, 2024, 1:48 pm • 7 0 • view
This but also the complete failure of the Obama administration to deliver anything other than the ACA and tens of thousands of dead civilians abroad
nov 20, 2024, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
My sister and I had a similar conversation. When she was asked by family why she is "so liberal", she said "because you took me to church when I was a little kid." For me, it was because they sat me down to watch Superman 1978 and shoved his comics in my hands at 5.
nov 20, 2024, 5:25 pm • 4 0 • view
100%
nov 19, 2024, 9:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Sesame Street did this to me. 💙⭐️🥰
nov 20, 2024, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Coincidentally this is why republicans don't want children to be taught to be kind in kindergarten anymore. They want all the soft feelsie stuff like sharing and treating others with respect taken out of schools because being taught to be kind...results in kind adults D:
nov 21, 2024, 9:33 am • 0 0 • view
They call it being radicalized. I call it being a kind and considerate human being
nov 20, 2024, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Same. My elementary school classroom had a big poster about the Golden rule and it was front and center and was the easiest one to see
nov 20, 2024, 10:13 am • 3 0 • view
Absolutely, couldn't have said it better.
nov 20, 2024, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
For reallll tho. Ppl have to remember the golden rule!!
nov 20, 2024, 4:03 am • 2 0 • view
This resonates in a profound and hurty way
nov 20, 2024, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Just wanted everyone to have food , housing , education, and healthcare.
nov 20, 2024, 2:49 pm • 3 0 • view
My mom taught me to treat people with respect and said if I did, people would treat me with respect. Turns out she was right.
nov 20, 2024, 7:58 am • 2 0 • view
"Civilization. Try it."
nov 20, 2024, 1:40 pm • 5 0 • view
Exactly!!!
nov 19, 2024, 1:58 pm • 7 0 • view
Right? If that's radical to someone, then we're not friends. Not sorry.
nov 20, 2024, 2:02 pm • 2 0 • view
The golden rule, so woke
nov 20, 2024, 1:41 pm • 4 1 • view
It is the way every controversial subject came down to "The fuck that gotta do with me." my government teacher even tried to convince me I would care about abortion if it was mine being aborted (fun fact: that isn't a possibility for me anyway. Not for that reason) and I had the same thought.
nov 20, 2024, 1:48 am • 5 0 • view
I grew up in a Catholic home. It wasn’t until I was saved in my mid 20s that my eyes were opened to the hate and bigotry that I had instilled in me from my raising. Now I try to love people, help whomever I can, and find any unconscious bias/bigotry left to remove so my children won’t have to.
nov 20, 2024, 1:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Same here. Never thought of it as radical.
nov 20, 2024, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like something that these days would be considered to be, 'code for being anti-conservative' (just like 'war on disinformation' is supposedly, 'code for being anti-conservative')
nov 20, 2024, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly!!
nov 20, 2024, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Was raised the same way - changed my point of view when that philosophy was implemented by the racist, misogynist, thief I encountered. Did not want to experience how he was expected to be treated (since he didn't realize he was any if these things - he was "normal" in his mind)
nov 19, 2024, 8:37 pm • 2 1 • view
Parents flummoxed that I actually tried to live up to the virtues they talked about and not the ones they modeled.
nov 20, 2024, 11:56 am • 7 0 • view
This election radicalized me to be even more left-leaning. The “conservative” virtue signaling was never about genuine ignorance about our differences; it was spite. Spite against anything that isn’t MAGA nationalist adjacent. Supporting every group they’re against is my mandate against fascism.
nov 20, 2024, 1:29 pm • 3 0 • view
My grandma told me if you don’t have nothing nice in say don’t say anything.
nov 21, 2024, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Bill & Ted said it best "Be Excellent to each other"
nov 28, 2024, 4:28 am • 2 0 • view
I took it to heart as a little kid and spent so much of my childhood and adolescence completely dismayed that most other people do not. My "kid brain" just couldn't understand why so many other people were mean, deceptive, and selfish.
nov 20, 2024, 12:28 pm • 6 0 • view
my grownup brain still doesn’t understand it
nov 20, 2024, 2:36 pm • 6 0 • view
"What radicalized you?" Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Sesame Street. Reading Rainbow. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Captain Planet. Bill Nye The Science Guy.
nov 21, 2024, 12:42 am • 16 5 • view
CARE BEARS (It’s literally in their name FFS)
nov 21, 2024, 12:45 am • 2 0 • view
I knew I'd forget some stuff. (I was never much into "Care Bears").
nov 21, 2024, 12:46 am • 1 0 • view
Spot on. Different genre, but I would add in Star Trek.
dec 6, 2024, 7:01 am • 0 0 • view
For me more like Captain Kangaroo
jan 20, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view
Also, this is the final song in that series. I got into "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" at a time in my life when I really needed it. youtu.be/ImsTS1Kb9ww?...
nov 21, 2024, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
I've linked this before, but I feel it needs more love. It's my favorite tribute to "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic". Spoiler warning if you haven't seen the whole show, esp the last two seasons. youtu.be/rfYr8LjSa6U?...
nov 21, 2024, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
I remember when I was 7 and we sang that song in Sunday school about how God loves all the little children. Then I was taught Matthew 7, and Matthew 25, and after that I realized Jesus was a radical leftist. That's when I realized had to be as left as Jesus and work everyday to be like Christ.
nov 20, 2024, 3:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Ok perhaps more specifically: when did you realize that the promises of capitalism were lies and that it as system preserves and exacerbates unfairnesses by design?
nov 20, 2024, 6:14 am • 1 1 • view
I was a regular Mr Rogers viewer. I guess I was brainwashed by the radical left at a young age.
nov 20, 2024, 12:13 pm • 4 0 • view
I was told to follow Jesus, and always ask "what would Jesus do?". Turns out I wasn't supposed to *actually* do that, but that's not my problem.
nov 20, 2024, 6:32 am • 7 1 • view
To my great shame, I can not say I have followed those words faithfully over the 30+ years since I learned them. But I try, and when I fail; I do my best to learn from my failure, make amends, and do better moving forward.
nov 20, 2024, 8:23 am • 2 0 • view
Pssst. That’s true for everyone.
nov 21, 2024, 3:31 am • 0 0 • view
And yet there are clearly people who don't even /try/. youtu.be/lCNPNs1pKoQ?...
nov 21, 2024, 3:38 am • 0 0 • view
Definitely true. Not everyone is nice and our government and laws should not pretend otherwise.
nov 21, 2024, 5:53 am • 0 0 • view
I never thought that taking Mr. Rogers' advice to heart would be considered "radical," but here we are.
nov 20, 2024, 2:12 pm • 2 1 • view
That’s the heart of it, right? Treating others with kindness and respect should be the baseline for everyone. It’s frustrating that simple principles like that are considered 'radical' by some.
nov 22, 2024, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
My mom and grandma teaching me to be kind and respectful and helpful always and, like, I just sort of...did that forever.
nov 20, 2024, 1:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Easy to forget stable loving parents is a privilege.
nov 20, 2024, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
This is the best thing I have ever seen. You described me to a “T”. Glad to know there are so many good people out there.
nov 21, 2024, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
😂😂😂 That's basically the gist of the conversation. There is a lot of healing from PTSD that needs to happen. So much anger and hatred effects people, it's not normal to be exposed to that for so long.
nov 20, 2024, 8:03 am • 2 0 • view
Perfectly Said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
nov 19, 2024, 8:17 am • 77 1 • view
I was a child of the 1970s and ALL our messages were above loving each other and I don't understand how other people didn't absorb that. We got it in school. We got it on PBS. It was literally EVERYWHERE.
nov 20, 2024, 11:57 am • 3 0 • view
Maybe the real motive behind dismantling public education and public broadcasting. Can't have kids going around learning to be the good people.
nov 22, 2024, 12:27 am • 1 0 • view
Some people just get it Others take fifty years to get it about 10% of the way there
nov 20, 2024, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Everyone said we should all play by the same rules and be nice to each other but those Fulkersons were apparently lying!! ...I'm gonna keep that typo.
nov 19, 2024, 4:46 pm • 20 1 • view
That's not radicalized. That's home training. Radicalized is taking more aggressive action against people that don't follow that.
nov 20, 2024, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Kindness? Compassion? Understanding? Sounds like a bunch of woke liberal ideas to me.
nov 20, 2024, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
As a former kindergarten teacher, I love this!
nov 20, 2024, 12:35 pm • 1 0 • view
For me - "love your neighbor"
nov 20, 2024, 5:31 am • 4 0 • view
The golden rule made plenty sense, but things got confusing quickly when it turned out I was a masochist. 😔
nov 20, 2024, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
My relationship with nature and the world, my curiosities/tendency to question everything, and my open-mindedness. I suppose free and critical thinking would be here to🤔
nov 20, 2024, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I prefer the term Enlightened
nov 20, 2024, 12:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I had a red marble with the golden rule engraved on it.
nov 20, 2024, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
the fact that hatred is spewed on Mainstream Media Constantly whether left or right
nov 19, 2024, 8:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Chef’s kiss
nov 20, 2024, 8:27 am • 0 0 • view
Facts, i thought everyone was taught that same thing
nov 20, 2024, 4:46 am • 3 0 • view
I remember being told that too and now everyone is either proud to be a prick or don't understand how to be empathetic. Feels like the twilight zone sometimes :/
nov 22, 2024, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
Most people forget that lesson because once we leave kindergarten we are told everyone else is an adversary with whom we must fight tooth and nail for the world's "limited" resources. People MAKE the most important resources we need. They aren't as limited as some would have us believe.
nov 20, 2024, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Millions of Americans have simply abandoned a vision of our country as founded in justice, improvement, opportunity. We always fall short of that ideal, but, it’s been the force for growth and change. What’s radical is throwing that all away because eggs are more expensive now.
nov 19, 2024, 9:45 pm • 17 3 • view
They made us recite EVERY MORNING that our republic is “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” I misguidedly took that to heart.
nov 20, 2024, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
THANK YOU
nov 20, 2024, 1:11 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly. All my political beliefs are based on two books by Munro Leaf - Manners Can Be Fun & Fair Play.
nov 20, 2024, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
My friends asked me this too. My response is similar. I'd add though, I grew up dirt poor. Was raised by a single mom. She taught me to love & respect all people, especially the disadvantaged. It made sense & stuck with me.
nov 20, 2024, 2:50 pm • 4 0 • view
When I was in kindergarten & 1st grade in the 70s, it was THIS show that we watched in school that I think set in place my entire belief system. “Free to be You and Me.” youtu.be/gwoyfT52Qt4?...
nov 20, 2024, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
That's a great question. I think my upbringing and the values instilled in me growing up played a big role in shaping my perspective. Treating others with kindness and respect has always been important to me. It's interesting how simple lessons from childhood can have a lasting impact.
nov 20, 2024, 11:40 am • 2 0 • view
My mum showing me not to be racist or homophobic, and to make sure I always recycled and avoid food waste really radicalised me so bad. It's worrying knowing kids are being raised like this, gaslit into being responsible citizens.
nov 19, 2024, 9:49 am • 354 11 • view
I'm so sorry you went through that! I hope she didn't also radicalized you into donating books, clothes, and things in good condition that you have but don't need like my mom did! Trully deplorable.
nov 20, 2024, 7:54 pm • 54 3 • view
🤣🤣
nov 22, 2024, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
She did 😭 She even... I don't know how to say this... encouraged me to volunteer.
nov 20, 2024, 8:02 pm • 47 1 • view
nov 21, 2024, 5:49 am • 1 0 • view
Oh no 😢 I'm so sorry for you! Sending corporate greed vibes 🙏🙏🙏
nov 20, 2024, 8:15 pm • 39 1 • view
._.; Yeah basically. As questionable as my upbringing was at times I was taught to not hurt people or let others hurt people because that's the right thing to do. Humans are social creatures it only makes sense for us to support each other rather than kill each other ya know.
nov 20, 2024, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
It's wild to me how some of these conservative types misinterpret "Darwinist" logic as "it's everyone for themself, pull yourself up" when in fact a huge part of why we've been able to build civilization is by taking care of each other
dec 7, 2024, 7:15 pm • 1 0 • view
This 1000%. I always try to think about what it would be like in the other persons shoes.
nov 21, 2024, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
My kindergarten actually taught me “greed is good - if you step over others to get ahead and profit you will be successful and have a home with 10 beds yet no friends to fill them” but then someone said “sharing is caring” so I went with the latter.
nov 20, 2024, 11:32 am • 2 0 • view
Would you say you believe in the categorical imperative?
nov 20, 2024, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
It's weird when other guys have called me a radical feminist. Feminism is political, social, and economic equality for women. Equality. The most radical all in interpretation of feminism is equal. Usually asking them what rights of women they would like to infringe on ends that chat quickly.
nov 19, 2024, 5:50 pm • 101 2 • view
The greater majority of conservative men don’t want equality for women, but they make it sound like they’re doing us a favor, for which we should be grateful. “Want me to protect you from other men, push in your chair, open doors and pay for meals? Then shut up and enjoy the freedoms I allow you.”
nov 21, 2024, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
A mindset that's foreign to me. I not only want my wife to be my equal, I need her to be. Sometimes I need her to step up and be stronger and better than me, and she always has. She's my rock. And as the father of a daughter - how could I want anything other than success and equality for her?
nov 21, 2024, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Same goes for just about anything else that call "radical". It means letting other people enjoy the same freedoms they do.
nov 19, 2024, 5:50 pm • 53 2 • view
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people" is one of those cliches that became a cliche because it was such a simple and obvious truth.
nov 20, 2024, 6:42 am • 52 3 • view
what about the way people treat you?
dec 22, 2024, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
this is the post that led me to your feed, greetings!
nov 24, 2024, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It's so weird that being a decent human being is now considered being radicalized! But here we are!
nov 20, 2024, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Crying bc it’s literally this simple 😭
nov 20, 2024, 2:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly, did no one else get home training??
nov 20, 2024, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
The cruelty of this world is an aggressive infection destroying the simplicity of kindness, and the problem is maliciously misdiagnosed to perpetuate the cruelty.
nov 20, 2024, 8:23 am • 3 0 • view
Which really should help, since so many Americans act like petulant kindergarteners.
nov 19, 2024, 6:12 pm • 18 1 • view
The Sermon on the Mount did it for me
nov 19, 2024, 8:32 pm • 8 1 • view
hypocrisy radicalized me, “love thy neighbor”
nov 20, 2024, 4:12 am • 5 0 • view
My older brother, who’s now 73, and I were discussing the states that want the Ten Commandments in the schools. We both agreed the Sermon on the Mount would be a better choice if you had to choose something. Then he reminded me the Sermon on the Mount was the passage they read at their wedding. Nice
nov 21, 2024, 3:24 am • 0 0 • view
I heard someone that knew Kamala well say she sees the world as having two kinds of people, those that follow the rules and those that don’t. I liked that.
nov 21, 2024, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
There’s no down side to this statement 🤦🏾♂️ but still humanity will pick the selfish route
nov 27, 2024, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
Had to cut ties with the church (many many many reason) but one of the most eye opening one was “even god said a country needs borders” I choked on my muffin and never went back
nov 20, 2024, 3:30 pm • 2 1 • view
Does anyone else remember the 7 pillars of character? It's like the people who taught them completely abandoned them.
nov 20, 2024, 11:57 am • 3 0 • view
Caring Citizenship Fairness Kindness Respect Responsibility Trustworthiness I think Kindness was a late add.
nov 20, 2024, 12:16 pm • 3 0 • view
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nov 20, 2024, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
If human dignity and kindness is radical, I'm radical
nov 20, 2024, 6:09 am • 7 1 • view
In utero
nov 22, 2024, 6:02 am • 0 0 • view
The sad thing is that my family who taught me that all voted MAGA😩
nov 20, 2024, 2:39 pm • 2 0 • view
My parents taught me to think critically and to care about other people and left me alone with a shelf full of Pratchett novels, what did they think would happen?
nov 20, 2024, 2:05 pm • 6 0 • view
Evergreen.
nov 20, 2024, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup!
nov 20, 2024, 1:20 pm • 9 0 • view
Great because *gestures to the world on fire* I was just wondering what's been going on you know?
nov 20, 2024, 2:08 pm • 3 0 • view
The 'American Dream' and caring about other people seem to be two things that are quite difficult to reconcile. When you are encouraged to do everything you can to get ahead, to earn your millions, provide for your family, you'll stamp on anyone to get there because this is your 'right'
nov 20, 2024, 7:53 pm • 2 0 • view
I know, right? Golly, we’re so radicalized… *wistful gaze into the middle distance*
nov 20, 2024, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes!!! It’s funny. I went to a church school where they taught Bible. Emphasized “love thy neighbor”, but now many of my fellow classmates and teachers are so MAGA insane. Doesn’t add up. Go figure.
nov 23, 2024, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I always ask Repubs “At what age did you teach your kids to be liars?” “And when do you show them how to cheat other people, and hate people from other countries?”
nov 20, 2024, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
The Golden Rule is the only principle you really need to build a society around…
nov 20, 2024, 3:53 am • 6 0 • view
Skateboarders used to say radical like it was a good thing so in my culture being radical was positive
nov 19, 2024, 4:12 pm • 89 2 • view
“Radical” just means a thing that affects the fundamental nature of something, so it can apply to positive or negative things. Unfortunately a lot of people use it to mean “extremist”. I think skateboarders were probably going for something like “that was so cool it changed my world” 😉
nov 20, 2024, 3:29 pm • 3 0 • view
It can go either way. Radical like Gandhi or radical like Idi Amin.
nov 20, 2024, 2:35 pm • 10 0 • view
Or radical like Tony Hawk.
nov 20, 2024, 3:53 pm • 20 0 • view
*mental image of Ghandi doing a sick kickflip*
nov 20, 2024, 5:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Our society is ruled by people who should have failed kindergarten.
nov 20, 2024, 4:36 am • 4 0 • view
someone told me people are equal regardless of race, colour or creed and i took it to heart
nov 20, 2024, 1:15 pm • 2 2 • view
Most of us haven't changed but as they radicalized to the right, and lost their morals and values, it made people with morals and values seem radical
nov 20, 2024, 2:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep. And, though I’m agnostic, I once learned about a poor brown man who told people to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, care for the sick, eschew wealth, and not make a big show of praying in public. His name was Jesus Christ but he doesn’t sound like someone “Xian Patriots” would like very much.
nov 20, 2024, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
It's wild, when you think about it. All you hear growing up is propaganda about how America is all about freedom and diversity and equality. Then you grow up and realize not only is that not true, but that a significant portion of the population don't even WANT freedom, equality, diversity, etc.
nov 20, 2024, 8:31 am • 7 0 • view
Literally that and I grew up being told “love thy neighbor” and the proceeded to watch the same people preaching that be pieces of shit so I said “no no YOU GUYS ARE THE ASSHOLES HERE!”
nov 20, 2024, 4:04 am • 12 0 • view
Not like an adult? Maybe yer right...kids live in a kinder world typically.
nov 23, 2024, 9:55 am • 1 0 • view
Literally lol
nov 20, 2024, 12:03 am • 2 0 • view
That simple. 👏
nov 20, 2024, 5:43 am • 2 0 • view
same. #catlickschool
nov 19, 2024, 5:46 pm • 2 1 • view
I have an innate sense of fairness that ppl tried to kill. Would not die. Yes life is not fair but we can work to make it more fair for everyone.
nov 20, 2024, 2:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly.
nov 20, 2024, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
That's why we throw rocks at mean people. It's how they want to be treated! Mrs. Marrow told me so!
nov 20, 2024, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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dec 23, 2024, 2:52 am • 1 0 • view
I watched Mr. Rogers a lot growing up
nov 20, 2024, 7:00 am • 6 1 • view
The best response to "What radicalized you?" is "Jesus". Absolutely softlocks them.
nov 20, 2024, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It's so wild me to me that this thing that I have always took as common sense is just not something that crosses people's minds. It's really one of those things that makes me feel like I live in a different world.
nov 28, 2024, 4:20 am • 0 0 • view