If you want to "send positive messages" use a greetings card.
The push to repurpose social and legal rules to send positive messages unmoors the rules from their purpose.
It might seem superficially "nice", progressive, accepting -- it is corrupting.
The push to repurpose social and legal rules to send positive messages unmoors the rules from their purpose.
It might seem superficially "nice", progressive, accepting -- it is corrupting.
The purpose of a the birth register is to record the facts of a child's birth.
The mother is the person with responsibility for the child from birth.
You don't take that away to send a positive message.
You take it away if you want to unrecognise mothers
The mother is the person with responsibility for the child from birth.
You don't take that away to send a positive message.
You take it away if you want to unrecognise mothers
The purpose of single sex spaces is to enable people to have consent over who gets to see them undressing, to not subject them to degrading treatment or force them to be unwilling participants for other people's sexual games.
You don't take those protections away to "send a positive message"
You take them away to unrecognise consent, to unrecognise "no"
You do this to women & children
You do this with the authority of the CPS, police, teachers
You corrupt the institutions that are meant to protect
You take them away to unrecognise consent, to unrecognise "no"
You do this to women & children
You do this with the authority of the CPS, police, teachers
You corrupt the institutions that are meant to protect
The purpose of journalism is to report the truth, to hold the powerful to account
You do not lie with the authority of the press to send a positive message.
You do it to confuse & abuse
You do not lie with the authority of the press to send a positive message.
You do it to confuse & abuse
The purpose of universities is to create knowledge and to train people to think.
You don't undermine this to be nice.
You undermine it to stop thought.
It is corruption
link.medium.com/ajNWbHI075
You don't undermine this to be nice.
You undermine it to stop thought.
It is corruption
link.medium.com/ajNWbHI075
The purpose of the courts is to do justice
You don't tell people to lie in court to be nice
womenarehuman.com/uk-courts-orde…
You don't tell people to lie in court to be nice
womenarehuman.com/uk-courts-orde…
Everybody wants to be liked
If you find yourself w power to set rules, guidance, judgments your responsibility is to the purpose you are meant to serve
If we ignore that to be nice (or to remain employable) that is corruption, just as much as brown envelopes
If you find yourself w power to set rules, guidance, judgments your responsibility is to the purpose you are meant to serve
If we ignore that to be nice (or to remain employable) that is corruption, just as much as brown envelopes
