Thread by @HeatherEHeying

All of us are capable of beauty, grace & strength, and also of ugliness, spite & weakness. We make brilliant decisions, and bad ones. Sometimes we follow when we should lead in a different direction. Sometimes we conform so as not to feel alone. At our best, we forgive. [thread]

Here are three amazing pieces relevant to this moment, insightful and deep and enjoyable to read. They do not ask you to suffer for your sins, or to turn in your neighbors. They invite you to think, by offering observation and interpretation, and letting you go from there.

.@walterkirn writes of the “liberal switch from skepticism to sanctimony about the most powerful arms of the Establishment” and of “liberal puritanism…fears that the wrong sort of people might be happy, or that their happiness might be of the wrong kind.”
harpers.org/archive/2018/0…

.@hollymathnerd proposes that there are three types of Trumpian untruths—the hyperbole of a narcissist, the blustery New York bullshitter, and deliberate and calculated lies—and why discerning between them is valuable.
hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/a-model-for-…

And Lionel Shriver, on what she calls “lefty lingo” observes that “privilege is a static state into which you are born, stained by original sin. Just as you can’t earn yourself into privilege, you can’t earn yourself out of it, either. harpers.org/archive/2019/1…

All of us speak with clarity sometimes, with confusion at others. Let us learn from our errors, and forgive ourselves and others. Let us be good to one another, show each other compassion, and recognition. Let us say to one another: I see you. You, like me, are human. /end