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So. This happened on Twitter last night. Just putting this up...

So. This happened on Twitter last night. Just putting this up for receipts and for people to see what tone policing, dismissive shit looks like.

‘opinions’

Really?

Here was my response to all of this.

Her response? Block me.

Now. There are good ways and bad ways to handle a callout.

This is a textbook bad way.

It doesn’t take much to listen and really respond.

If you are, you know, actually thinking the person you are talking with is human

But if you don’t

This will be your reply:

Dismissive and condescending.

Now, no one owes it to me to engage. But if you cannot handle even this fairly gentle criticism because (as they claim, I’m not doing it out of ‘love)…

You need to rethink your Activism(tm)

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