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www.linkedin.comDoes it work to shame companies on LinkedIn? | Amy Phillips BurschDoes it work to shame companies on LinkedIn? Because Delta Air Lines abandoned two 16-year-old girls at the Seattle Airport overnight last night. My 16-year-old nieces were flying by themselves from D.C. to Seattle and then onto Spokane yesterday. There was bad weather, and they held the plane on the tarmac for so long at DCA that they missed their original connection. They were rebooked on a later flight to Spokane. By the time the plane finally took off, nearly four hours late, they weren't going to make that connection, either. We didn't know that until after the plane departed. There were no announcements, and the Delta app wasn't updating. I was at the airport waiting for their plane to take off. My husband was at home on hold for two hours trying to get information. Nobody ever picked up. After we realized that they couldn't make their connection, I went to the Delta counter and explained that the situation. They explained what would happen: As soon as they deplaned, they would be met at the gate. Delta agents would call their parents. The girls would be provided a hotel room and chaperoned by two Delta employees, who would make sure that they were fed, safe and made their flight the next morning. I relayed that to the girls' parents. We all thought that sounded OK, given the circumstances. None of that happened. After their flight finally landed, nobody met them at the gate. They stood in line at the customer service counter. The Delta employees told them that because they were 16, they were considered adults, and there was nothing they would do for them. The girls asked about help getting a hotel. The Delta employees said they wouldn't do that because they aren't 18. So my nieces spent the night by themselves at SeaTac. An international airport. At age 16. So here's my question for Delta Air Lines: At what point during your 100 years did you lose your humanity?
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@kevinrothrock

Agreed. I have many connection requests now that go unanswered because I can't stand the platform. Cancelled my "Premium" account a while ago because having visibility into which bots scraped my account really wasn't very useful to me.

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www.linkedin.com'“There is never anything on one side of a rivalry which, sooner or later,… | Mark R. '“There is never anything on one side of a rivalry which, sooner or later, will not be found on the other,” Girard writes. Read him and you start seeing this stuff everywhere. Choose your enemies carefully; you will resemble them before very long.' Rene Girard (and I understand he's thought of as controversial in some quarters) is one of my favorite thinkers. He's famous for mimetic rivalry. Basically we play a perpetual game of keeping up with the neighbors. Or envying the neighbors. So copying and coveting have drove most of human history. So much for the 10 commandments. The thing that gets interesting is we often become what we once hated. Just think about how people always say, I can't believe I'm becoming my father/mother/etc. Or countries doing what was done to them by others. We can stop there with mimetic rivalry think our job is done. No it's just beginning. "What is often left out of discussions of Girard is the most challenging part of his theory, about how we break the cycle. Here he turns to one of the firmest messages of the gospels: the injunction to love our enemies. Girard knew, as we all know, that renunciation and mercy are almost impossibly hard, and quite alien to human culture. Yet he argues that it is the moments when the mimetic crisis has reached a hysterical crescendo, when “the vanity and stupidity of violence have never been more obvious”, that it is possible to see our enemies in a new way". What does that look like in practice. Let's take reparations. You give half (whatever figure is agreed on that has financial and symbolic importance) the money to the descendants of slavery, you give the other half to everyone who falls under a certain measure of income/wealth. Reparations won't ever make anything whole financially, spiritually--you don't make up for 400+ years. But the symbolism of a "renunciation" type of reparation framework can change the nature of the narrative and the nature of inter-racial relations. I can hear the objections already. Yet so many things that at one point people thought were impossible have already happened. Descendants of holocaust survivors buy German cars and are emigrating to Berlin to feel more safe. England and France get along, even after a 116 (the 100 years war actual length) years of fighting and a much longer history of skirmishes. And the Irish aren't bombing the British liked they did in the 70's. And Vietnam is a tourist destination, not the home of the Tet offensive. I'm not under any delusion of how hard renunciation is, or how controversial split reparations would be, or getting to a durable two state solution in Israel/Palestine. Renunciation at its root is about letting go of exceptionalism. And it is very hard to admit that we're not special. We fuel consumerism and capitalism with the facade of exceptionalism, we fuel a lasting peace by renouncing exceptionalism. All view my own. Article in comments.

via #LinkedIn:

In a recent conversation on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Stacey Abrams outlined a ten-stage trajectory toward autocracy, originally conceptualized by Princeton University’s Professor Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology & International Affairs, urging Americans to recognize and resist these warning signs .

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While African wisdom teaches us, “ it takes a village to raise a child,” we must also name a painful truth:

Not all villages are safe.
Some villages are cages of neglect, invalidation, abuse, trauma, and harm, caused by the very communities meant to raise, love, and protect children.

The struggles we witness in children and youth today are not simply individual “acting out,” anti-social behaviors, or pathologies as we often see them.

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