Nice. You sounded like me when a masker would question my unmasked face here in SF during the early times (you must also notice that, still, most of the "pro-Palestinian" rally participants are masked).
What was missing in the mask tyranny bullying was others in masks who knew it was theater but wore them anyways standing up for the right of others to not mask. It's one thing to fight back against the bullies when you're the target. It's another to stand up for others being bullied.
That's what Mark did. It's called Anti-Bullying 101, taught in grade schools. See a kid being bullied stand up for him/her, numbers, puts bullies in their place.
Missing during the mask bullying. It was more often random strangers who bullied than store employees or authorities. Imagine if other shoppers, in masks, chose to stand up for those who dared not wear one?
In the societal revisionist history of it a majority will now say they knew it was theater, didn't support mask mandates and 'bravely' say they believe in choice. In fact, if you try to bully someone in a mask today others in the store will stand up for your masked target and tell you to back off, it's their choice. Yet from 2020-2022 in most cities those same 'brave' "free choice" protectors from bullies were nowhere to be found for mask refuseniks. They weren't 'brave' when it mattered. When bravery involves risk.
What Mark did involved risk. He did it anyways. Smart? If defined as not putting oneself in a dangerous situation, probably not. But brave? Absolutely!
It will take bravery like that to face a future of tyrannical authority-sanctioned bullying. Where others (ourselves) who aren't the immediate target of a bullying stranger put them/our selves in harm's way. Land of the free, home of the brave and all.
Nice. You sounded like me when a masker would question my unmasked face here in SF during the early times (you must also notice that, still, most of the "pro-Palestinian" rally participants are masked).
Exactly. My Persian wife would accuse all the mask Nazis of being Taliban.
What was missing in the mask tyranny bullying was others in masks who knew it was theater but wore them anyways standing up for the right of others to not mask. It's one thing to fight back against the bullies when you're the target. It's another to stand up for others being bullied.
That's what Mark did. It's called Anti-Bullying 101, taught in grade schools. See a kid being bullied stand up for him/her, numbers, puts bullies in their place.
Missing during the mask bullying. It was more often random strangers who bullied than store employees or authorities. Imagine if other shoppers, in masks, chose to stand up for those who dared not wear one?
In the societal revisionist history of it a majority will now say they knew it was theater, didn't support mask mandates and 'bravely' say they believe in choice. In fact, if you try to bully someone in a mask today others in the store will stand up for your masked target and tell you to back off, it's their choice. Yet from 2020-2022 in most cities those same 'brave' "free choice" protectors from bullies were nowhere to be found for mask refuseniks. They weren't 'brave' when it mattered. When bravery involves risk.
What Mark did involved risk. He did it anyways. Smart? If defined as not putting oneself in a dangerous situation, probably not. But brave? Absolutely!
It will take bravery like that to face a future of tyrannical authority-sanctioned bullying. Where others (ourselves) who aren't the immediate target of a bullying stranger put them/our selves in harm's way. Land of the free, home of the brave and all.
Thank you. No better use of profanity than that.
Nice!
Good for you, but be careful!