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Nice People Scare Me

12/9/2014

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Nice people fit in

Nice people are privileged

Nice people benefit from the status quo

Nice people allow the oppressive status quo

Nice people are sociopaths in allowing the status quo

Nice people have less work that would make them not nice

Nice people benefit from the work other people do to make it nice

Nice people scare me, nice people annoy me, nice people avoid me


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Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley.  She has a section 15 Charter challenge regarding the continued sex discrimination in The Indian Act, and is an outspoken critic of the Ontario Algonquin land claims and self-government process.  She has three books: Anishinaabeg Stories: Featuring Petroglyphs, Petrographs, and Wampum Belts, The Truth that Wampum Tells: My Debwewin of the Algonquin Land Claims Process, and Mkadengwe: Sharing Canada's Colonial Process through Black Face Methodology.  You can reach her at lynngehl@gmail.com and see more of her work at www.lynngehl.com.

4 Comments
Reyna Crow
12/8/2014 11:38:05 pm

Grateful- so true.

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projectbrainsaver link
12/9/2014 10:46:53 am

http://mic.com/articles/92479/psychologists-have-uncovered-a-troubling-feature-of-people-who-seem-nice-all-the-time

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Rob-bear
12/18/2014 04:11:01 am

"Nice" people can scare the living daylights out of me. Take for example, Stephen Harper, the truly Canadian "nice guy." He smiles a lot, but what comes out of his mouth is frightening.

I understand your point, Lynn!

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Cheryl McDonald
2/3/2016 06:17:09 am

I was raised by nice people who were stoic. I can now see how their opinion and treatment of me caused my spirit to soar and race for cover at the same time.

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