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  1. In praise of nice people

    https://youtu.be/TEh7Ui-Fm0k

    … but this is something to forget something key about human nature. That we tend to category, and tragically, ignore and trample upon goodness and niceness whenever it crosses our path. We are spoilt children who rarely pay heed to the glories we are gifted.

    life is too awful to treat niceness with anything other than wholehearted reverence.

    #humanity #kindness #nice #niceness #people #philosophy #youtube
  2. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  3. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  4. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  5. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  6. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  7. A quotation from Addison

    Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-09-13), The Spectator, No. 169

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/6068/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #amiability #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #conversation #forgiveness #goodcheer #goodnature #niceness #rogue #vice #virtue

  8. If you're as nice to a good friend as you are to someone who treats you badly, then your niceness doesn't seem so valuable anymore.

    #threadsExodus #InstagramExodus #niceness #peoplepleaser #peoplepleasers #sayno

  9. I am experiencing an unaccustomed sense of growing #niceness and general uplifting #care via the internet since joining the #fedi.

    And I'm talking about on other platforms too.

    The #kind #virus is spreading. #Time to ramp up and #go!

  10. STRANGE/R/NESS: INTIMACIES IN UNCANNY WORLDS

    A series of events presented by the Postdigital Intimacies research cluster in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

    JUNE 3-6, 2024

    Register now!

    urldefense.com/v3/__https://ww$

    Join us for a week-long series of online events (3rd-6th June) exploring what is uncanny, strange, and ‘other’ in relation to today’s digital, and postdigital, intimacies.

    #digital #postdigital #niceness #intimacy #strange #uncanny

  11. @bleakfuture @ShaulaEvans @Mrfunkedude HA!
    And as soon as I saw you, I had to follow immediately!
    This Ouroboros of #Niceness OMG!
    See, I say Funkee. Like Funky. I never even considered saying it Foon-kay. That sounds so much cooler.

  12. Although I understand there are good points to #Mastodon, I am really concerned that we cannot discuss #race and #politics and other important topics without trigger warnings and what not. I loved how reading passionate threads from others on Twitter helped me understand other perspectives. I can't figure out if that is possible here, without conversation being stifled and forced to adhere to some performance of #niceness.

  13. CW: On niceness

    First thing I noticed on Mastodon is that people are nicer. And I liked it.

    This reminds me of HN. Say what you will of its culture, but I'll take reasonable passive-aggressiveness any day over personal insults.

    #Niceness isn't a Western social construct. All cultures probably develop norms of communication in order to not sound aggressive or rude, unless you mean it. Assholes get marginalized or confronted.

    You want your message to be heard and not just in a preach to the choir.

  14. #rant

    #niceness vs #kindness:

    Niceness is the set of rules us white people established and force on everyone else, allowing us to punish anyone not seen as "nice" (as in, not playing by our shitty rules).

    Kindness is giving a damn about other people and acting accordingly; kindness is sometimes speaking out but also sometimes shutting up. Kindness does not force others to submit to a set of arbitrary rules that favor white people.

    I don't want a nice #Mastodon, I'd like a kind one.