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This great post is from #RebeccaSolnit, all her words, not mine:

"The middle ground is not halfway between Nazis and antiracists. The reasonable position is not a compromise between rapists and feminists, slaveowners and abolitionists, Natives and General Crook.
The truth is not midway between the liar and the truthteller. That has to be a factor in all those calls for reaching out and unity.

"The murderer and his intended victim don't have to agree on what's right.
The people who were harmed don't have to reach out to those who did the harming. The people who told the truth don't need to make liars feel better about themselves or what they said. Those who were targeted by this war don't have to do all the peacemaking.
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3-4Ekim #DünyaYürüyüşGünü!
#RebeccaSolnit'in "#YolAşkı/#YürümeninTarihi" kitabının girişinden:

'Mesafeleri kat etmek için yalnızca ayaklarımızın yeterli oluşu, makineler olmadan seyahat ettiğimiz binyılla birlikte hafızalarımızdan silindi gitti.(...)"
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-->"Hayalgücünün ve sorumluluğun çöküşüne karşı mücadele etmek, siyasî özgürlük için verilen savaşlar kadar önemli olabilir."-->
-->"Çünkü sadece özümüzde var olan içsel gücümüzü canlandırdığımız ölçüde hem baskılara hem de hareket eden canlı bedenin erozyonuna direnebiliriz.
Yürürken, beden ve zihin birlikte çalışır ve böylece düşünmek neredeyse fiziksel, ritmik bir eyleme dönüşür"-->
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“...people usually gain power through traits and actions that advance interests of others such as #empathy, #collaboration, openness, #fairness...when they start to feel powerful or enjoy position of privilege, those qualities begin to fade....(1)
...The powerful are more likely than other people to engage in rude, selfish and unethical behaviour” #RebeccaSolnit citing #DacherKeltner on his work studying relationship between empathy and power
“If power generates a cushion of obliviousness around it, those of us with power need to counter it. That means, first, treating people with respect, regardless of their status: not taking the invitation to disdain or ignore” #Solnit
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