This is not about Pepsi.

A talk about how hard it is to be living in a country that is breaking your heart and astounding you every day of the week, and how lots of people are having a very tough time right now. There is a lot to be gained by giving people the benefit of the doubt, by trying not to project or assume, by extending compassion wherever you can…but, there’s also a line where you have to take care of yourself. There’s a place where extending too much slack is the same thing as allowing yourself to be treated in a way that doesn’t feel good.

A society is just a whole bunch of people, so is a constituency, so is a country. People are just people, and what we do and say, matters, it has an impact. When times are tough, head for the people who have your back, who laugh and cry with you, and who shake their heads when people leave weird comments under your essays. Those are your people, that is community, and that’s how we get through tough times…together.

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