Friday, August 25, 2006

fight fascism everywhere

In government, in the workplace, at home, at school, in your relationships, in yourself.

When someone justifies their arbitrary and unilateral use of power by saying they'd rather ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.
When someone tells you what you have to do, because that's the way it's done here.
When someone informs you that from now on, all questions will go through him/her, and if they want your input, they will ask you for it.
When someone says you can forget those old rules you used to follow, they are no longer in effect, and they will tell you what the new rules are, and if you have a problem with that, they're sorry but according to the new rules, that's your problem.
When someone takes your stuff and says it's really their stuff, because they need it for something more important than whatever it was you were going to do with it.
When someone says your ideas are fine, but here's how we're going to do things.
When someone says everybody here is equal, except those other people, and we all know who they are and why they're not as good as us, and if you don't understand or agree, you're probably one of them.
When somebody says they're doing this for your own good, and you'll thank them later, but they can't tell you why because it's better that you don't know.
When somebody says your ideas are interesting, but everyone knows that in reality things are very different. When someone says your ideas are just like theirs, so you must be right.
When someone says that it offends her/him, therefore it is morally wrong, unjust, unfair, and unfit. When someone says they like it, therefore it is morally right, just, and correct.

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