The Problem With Politeness

Stop thanking me for being polite when I’m angry about injustice and focus on the injustice instead

Bridgette L. Hylton
ZORA
Published in
8 min readApr 12, 2021

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So there is this “compliment” that well-meaning people lob at me when I write conscientiously about social ills that infuriate me. I write about something deeply painful, troubling and/or problematic in our society in my own fairly measured way that…

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