Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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This week I’m thinking back to this powerful quote (long-circulating, origin unclear):

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Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person”

and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “If you won’t respect me I won’t respect you,” and what they mean is “If you won’t treat me like an authority then I won’t treat you like a person.”
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Re @fsinnFrancisca Sinn: mas.to/@fsinn/1158749751514074

Francisca Sinn (@fsinn@mas.to)

“The thread that runs through both is the assumption that an American exercising their constitutional rights must submit, without question, to a white man holding a gun. This is the larger meaning of federal agents from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol in US cities. While they are attacking primarily people of color, the message they carry is directed at all Americans: you must do what the Trump administration and its loyalists demand.“ https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-10-2026?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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