It’s #ShakespeareSunday so it’s apt to recite my favourite sonnet, which is timely in this regard: the Wokeasi (woke Stasi) will keep casting assertions at anyone who deviates ever so slightly from their dogma, even when the person is someone as benign as Tony Abbott.
More and more people have realised that this is an unwinnable game, and others are thinking that if they are to be condemned regardless, why not at least live up to the assertion they’re being condemned of.

Which is what Shakespeare wrote 400 years ago:
‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be receives the reproach of being
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feelings, but by others’ seeing
For why should others false, adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
And why
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad that I think good?
No, I am that I am; and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own:
I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;
By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown,
Unless this general evil they maintain:
All men are bad and in their badness reign.

#ShakespeareSunday

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