#Normalization

a cactus with feelings it doesnt want

izzmythoughts

I will forever advocate for the normalization of adults doing harmless “childish” things. Sleep with stuffed animals bring them to class carry around a safety blanket. so many of these

emmi

emmibevensee

The "polarization is the problem" narrative to me is bad because it implies the status quo was a stable and acceptable set of trade-offs. It's the equivalent of a pollyanna

Jamil Dakwar

jdakwar

Israel's normalization deals with the UAE and Bahrain will not bring peace to the Middle East. If anything, they will only embolden oppressive regimes and encourage abuses of international law.

RanaAwdishMD

RanaAwdish

So many of us in medicine are deeply familiar with the normalization of abhorrent behavior in service of some perceived institutional gain (reputation, skill, productivity). There is a reason this

Evan Selinger

EvanSelinger

Thread on @tiffanycli’s must-read law review draft, “"Privacy in Pandemic: Law, Technology, and Public Health in the COVID-19 Crisis." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3690004 My focus here: normalization is

Dr. Sunny Moraine PhD is carrying the fire

dynamicsymmetry

“How did Germany just *allow Hitler to take over and ruin the country?*”This is how. The predominant human social instinct is to normalize and carry on as if nothing much

Ilan Goldenberg

ilangoldenberg

1. To folks, and especially my Israeli friends, who are wondering why I’m questioning this Morocco deal and the Sudan deal. Let me try and explain my concerns. It’s not

Claire

ClaireRedacted

Corbynistas insist on reinstating dear leader because they know no one can hate on them Jews like he does.No other leftist leader has ever had the guts and pluckiness to

Secret Gamer Girl

SecretGamerGrrl

I'm noticing a significant uptick in two things this week from transphobes:- Sketchy arguments that everything from trans people existing to basic sex ed classes continuing to be taught are

🥂 marquis de posade 🏖

acczibit

Legit curious as to how many people are in the closet because coming out would be incredibly cringe and they'd rather live a simulacrum of when being gay was niche

Aram Zucker-Scharff

Chronotope

Just thinking about how we're in a cultural period of examining how ideas enter into people's heads. Inception, R*d p*lls, Disco Elysium, meme culture, and yesterday I just played a

Danielle Rose

danirosepoet

I believe representation is HUGE for trans acceptance. Norms are spongey, and their function is to absorb new things into their existing, normative systems. Which is why (from a trans

Tesfaye Yehualashet

TesfaTigray

#Eritrea has been a pariah state for its conflict with all its neighbors and went through more than a decade long sanction that have started in #IGAD #AU & by

Shany Mor שני מור شني مور

ShMMor

The lack of self-awareness from an expert peace processor here is stunning. It is precisely the withholding of funds tied to pay-for-slay & the shifting regional diplomatic architecture that have

Matt Walsh

MattWalshBlog

I'm sorry but I don't want to hear @AOC's tearful descriptions of her trauma from the Capitol Hill riots when this woman couldn't possibly give less of a shit about

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

Over the past four years many have spoken of government ethics as though they were the province of Miss Manners. Now the lack of ethics has left 200,000 Americans dead

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