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.@BodiedMovie is soooooooooooooooooooo good.
And @PopChassid you must watch this film.
It illuminates why I disagree with almost everything you’ve written on race in America. Perhaps disagree with is the wrong phrase. I believe it’s reductive. Anyway, you should watch it and we should discuss.
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This is quite good 👌🏾
.@bungarsargon Id loved to speak to you about how the premise of this piece is precisely why I feel so critical of many of the pieces you’ve recently published in the Forward. It seems you’ve painted every Ashkenazi Jew who disagrees with a Jew of Color as monster incarnate.
Purely by virtue of the fact that one has one phenotype while another has a different one. It is precisely the dangers you point out here which I think are the dangers of how you’ve characterized some debates in the pages of the Forward.
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Chloé S. Valdary 📚
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I read about how the @APA recently wrote that “traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful.”

I have some...well I have some thoughts, lol.
First, I don't know if anyone at the APA knows what Stoicism is. It is an ancient Greek philosophy that teaches how to withstand constant changes in life and how to remain in control when all else seems chaotic. It also teaches us how to overcome knee-jerk impulses.
I keep a book called 'The Daily Stoic' by @RyanHoliday on my desk & read a chapter every day. Its lessons, if internalized by society would actually lead to LESS reactive aggression (which I suspect is what the APA is trying to get at when it uses these vague terms.
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Chloé S. Valdary 📚
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I’m beginning to think that our obsession with pinpointing which of our identities are marginalized & which arent is a unique feature of being an American — a national identity which has of late been experiencing societal dislocation and is in search of its purpose in the world.
If you’re marginalized, you have a grievance and you can set about overcoming and fighting against that grievance which in turn gives your life meaning and purpose. But in 201& marginalization is becoming not the experience but the raison d’etre.

Can you spot the flaw?
Dr. King knew all humans had worth. His primary identity was religious — not political. His fight was for the law to reflect what he already knew to be true.

Today many have existential angst, don’t know their worth and believe that having grievances makes them worthy.
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