Thread by @JillPiggott

When Lara Trump mocked #Biden's #stutter, #Sully wrote an op-ed calling out the "culture of cruelty." He, too, struggled with stuttering as a kid & he wanted kids to know that "a speech disorder is a lot easier to treat than a character defect." /thread. nytimes.com/2020/01/18/opi…

#Sully: "To every child who feels today, what I felt, after hearing those cruel remarks by an adult who should know better, here is what I want you to know:

You are fine, just as you are. You can do any job you dream of when you grow up."

#Sully: "You can be a pilot who lands your plane on a river and helps save lives, or a president who treats people with respect, rather than making fun of them. You can become a teacher to kids who stutter. A speech disorder is a lot easier to treat than a character defect."

#Sully: "You become a true leader, not because of how you speak, but because of what you have to say — and the challenges you have overcome to help others. Ignore kids (and adults) who are mean, or don’t know what it feels like to stutter."

#Sully: "Respond by showing them how to be kind, polite, respectful and generous, to be brave enough to try big things, even though you are not perfect.

Do that, and the sky is the limit. Take it from me." thedailybeast.com/capt-chelsey-s…

In the NYT, #Sully criticized Lara Trump's casual cruelty in words that came "without hesitation: Stop. Grow up. Show some decency. People who can’t, have no place in public life."

Trump himself is thoroughly incapable of showing ANY decency. He has no place in our public life.