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Great post! It's so crazy and sad to me that mask wearing has political implications in the US. It's like suddenly deciding that using a wheelchair is a political statement. "You're not army crawling around town? You asshole!"

The current culture in the US makes me worried about moving back. Adam is really worried about being around a lot of people not wearing masks. He's not immunocompromised, but it makes him angry that the immunocompromised are at higher risk because of healthy people spreading the disease.

Roxane Gay often says that cancel culture isn't real. The people who are supposedly "cancelled" like Louis CK or Dave Chapelle continue do very well in their careers, so how is that a cancellation? They're merely suffering from criticism. You're just as entitled to your words as they are to theirs.

Of course, I understand the intended message here is that listening is good, empathy is good, we should work toward respectful communication, not shut people down, I get that.

It would just make me really sad if you censored yourself out of fear that someone will criticize you for "canceling" someone. That's essentially self-cancelling. Your words are valuable and the world needs them.

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