Every day there's at least a hundred more validations of me cutting the Trumpers out of my life 9 years ago. Sometimes I have doubts but then another torrent of Trumpist sadism comes along to remind me I was right. #shame #shunning

This group was cancelling people before it was cool.

The recent authoritarian overreach isn't new to me. I grew up in a religious tradition of the same flavor. One day I want to finish writing about it. But until then, I'm taking the power back. Receiving this letter was once feared more than hellfire itself. For no reason.
See:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOycbl2jRUN/

#humanrights #religion #authoritarianism #exvangelical #shunning #christiannationalism #freedomfromreligion #humanist #cancelled #cancelculture

A quotation from Judith Martin

You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you’re trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (1995-03-06) by Virginia Shea, “Miss Mannners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Internet Behavior,” Computerworld, Vol. 29, No. 10

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/77832/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #etiquette #offending #offensiveness #ostracism #politeness #rudeness #socializing #shunning

LOOK AT THESE “Just following orders” FACES.

#ACAB #pittsburgh #shunning

Stephen Robinson responds to Gavin Newsom's sucking up to the odious Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk:

"Some people just need to be shunned."

And I heartily agree.

#Bannon #Newsom #CharlieKirk #shunning

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/gavin-newsom-podcast-bannon-kirk-yuck

On March 8, Pete #Ricketts a member of the U.S. Senate from #Nebraska will be in the #StPatricksDay #Parade in #Omaha I’d love to see (organize?) a big group of folks to attend the parade and when Pete comes by just turn their backs to him the way he has turned his back on Nebraskans. (Actually, I think this kind of public #shunning / #shaming would be great for all politicians rolling over to the 🍊 and #SpaceBaby administration regardless of party) Please boost (and reply if you are going to attend the parade so we can organize) Thanks in advance! #TurningOurBacks

No, #Trump #MAGA fans, you don't get it. Your #liberal friends and family aren't #shunning you because of #politics.

It's because you don't know the difference between #right and #wrong.

You Are Enough

Reflecting on it now, it seems rather astonishing that I was taught by a religion that we are inherently sinful and wicked, and that we need someone else to make us whole. This teaching emphasized our flaws and imperfections. It’s understandable why so many people feel unable to meet such incredibly unattainable standards.

Just a reminder: you are amazing just as you are. You are enough. And you don’t need validation from those who don’t appreciate you for simply doing your best.

#ArchiveWasPublic_ #Autonomy #CriticalThinking #happy #Kindness #life #PersonalGrowth #PsychologicalSupport #ReligiousDeconstruction #SelfCompassion #Shunning #SupportNetwork

Bangladesh is pinning its hopes on one of the nation's most acclaimed intellectuals to bring stability to a country scarred by coups and political upheaval.
#NobelLaureateMuhammadYunus #LeadBangladesh #Shunning #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/bangladesh-unrest-nobel-laureate-muhammad-yunus-to-lead-bangladesh-after-shunning-politics-6280701

There's been some talk of #shunning out there, shunning others for believing this or that. I'm not convinced this really accomplishes anything. I remember someone important in my life shunning me for divorcing and this during my cancer treatment. It undercut my beliefs in what they believed. Shunning cuts off all possibility of future #dialogue. During the rough time of shunning, I watched this documentary, and felt I could relate. Things were never the same. #activism

https://youtu.be/zQ0uVZiHX8g?si=WxcXKHqYaaJX_Pgb

Funny, dark and clever: Last night we saw the film 'Dream Scenario' starring #NicolasCage. My take on the deeper meaning: How a "nice", ordinary man's happy life is destroyed by what other people think of him (#prejudice) and the resulting social #shunning he suffers.
https://youtu.be/q3x9iUL-74w?feature=shared #movie

Most surprising hit of the year in #Israel: "Yeled Mitriya" ("Umbrella Boy"), a #sad, #acoustic #song about #bullying and #shunning.
#Music #IsraeliMusic

Tfw your mom posts this and you realize you're the crackhead? I guess? Lol. It's a low key #passiveaggressive #shunning . Or maybe actually aggressive aggressive?

Well at least maybe she's letting go and not blaming herself. That's a way to look at it.

#religioustrauma #deconversion #exchurch #exchristian

#CandaceCameronBure #Denies #Shunning #Queer ‘#FullerHouse’ #GuestStar.

#Actress #MissBenny, who played “#FullerHouse’s” first #openly #queer #character, recently #alleged that an unnamed #Tanner #sister tried to have her “#removed” from the #show.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-cameron-bure-denies-shunning-queer-fuller-house-guest-star

Inside #Norwich, an #Ontario #town at #war with a #church ‘#controlling’ its #citizens

#Residents say it’s this #wealthy #church that has created a #bleed between #theocraticrule and #secular #politics, currying #political #favour, #shunning the #LGBTQ2s #community, and demanding #recreation and #businesses #close on #Sundays.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Canada #Fascism #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews

https://globalnews.ca/news/9782962/norwich-ontario-netherlands-reformed-congregation/

'It’s almost gotten to be boring, the degree to which people believe that what they refer to as “free speech” should not only allow them to say whatever they want (which it does), but should also prevent other people from understanding them to be the sort of person who says those things.’

#ARMoxon #ScottAdams #FreeSpeech #Shunning #Shaming

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

“That is the tyranny – the climate of fear, of punishment, that has been created,” said Ms. Toews. “The reverberations of that are endless. That culture of control and of shaming – it’s in our DNA, like it exists on a cellular level.”
#shunning #MiriamToews
#oscars

"Ms. Toews says she’d rather be whipped: “#Shunning is a cruel, barbaric punishment – it sends shivers down my spine. It cuts individuals off from their family and community, and designates them as unworthy of human contact. It happens all the time in different ways, and it’s destructive and sad and ridiculous and hateful.” #MiriamToews

Miriam Toews’s Oscars moment exposes a complicated relationship with her Mennonite hometown
Steinbach, Man., still largely shuns the author whose stories of #Mennonite life scandalized the devout. Now, a movie based on her novel Women Talking is a Best Picture nominee."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-miriam-toews-mennonite-steinbach-women-talking/

#WomenTalking #shunning