MINUTES of a MONDAY #79
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Brain Food > Healthy Skepticism
“We should be skeptical of the people who claim to speak on behalf of these communities.
Instead of looking to self proclaimed leaders of various marginalized and dispossessed groups, we need to actually ask those groups themselves.
It’s worth collecting data, looking at surveys, speaking with people — not just community leaders and activists who have their own agendas.
I saw this at Yale where someone who shares the characteristics of a historically mistreated group would claim to speak on behalf of them, but they had very little in common with them other than the way that they looked.
I want people to be a bit more skeptical of the self-proclaimed activist leaders who could be trying to push an agenda, trying to elicit sympathy, and trying to exploit people’s concerns.”
talks about how the marginalised are talked about
Soul Food
"An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."
Sanford Meisner
LOL
Michael Spicer on Podcast property advice:
Appendix
“We must give up many things to which we are addicted, considering them to be good. Otherwise, courage will vanish, which should continually test itself. Greatness of the soul will be lost which can’t stand out unless it disdains as petty what the mob regards as most desirable.”
Seneca
A.O.B.
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Mind how you go out there this week - Niall