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Category: Advice for the Times

  • Don’t Let MAGA Use Your Decency Against You

    Or, Don’t Fall for MAGA’s Mind Games I’m sure that you’ve been gaslit before by MAGA’s talking-point judo. They will demand that you show inclusiveness toward them, so that they can more openly exclude others.  They will insist that you be fair to them, so that they can more easily be unfair to others.  They…

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  • MAGA Has No Defense Against This Kind of Attack

    (Or, How to Immunize Your Children against Trumpism Through Good Parenting) Think you can stop MAGA in its tracks by pointing out their self-contradictions? Guess again. Think that blasting their latest outrageous lies on social media will make a dent? Forget it. MAGA takes it as a compliment. And never mind generating stupid memes. Memes…

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  • How to Stand Up to Hate in Your Community

    To stand up to hate in our community, or anywhere else, we must be as hard as granite: an impenetrable stone wall of opposition. Don’t ever give hate an inch or it will take a mile. Hate will look for ways to use your goodness against you. Hate will look for ways to use your…

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  • When Bad Things Happen, Remember Who

    When the topic is the surge in racism and discrimination, remind everyone who made racism “acceptable” again. When the topic is bullying in schools, remind everyone who made bullying popular again. When the topic is the lack of respect for others in today’s society, remind everyone who made disrespect for others a sign of being…

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