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Meteorologist resigns, citing PTSD from threats over climate change coverage (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] marco@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently read a letter by Dietrich Bonnhoefer, who was a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, who was imprisoned in 1943, hanged by Hitler's personal directive in April 1945.

His letter is titled "On Stupidity" and it explains A LOT.

(Stupidity is not meant as little mental capacity, but "people [who] are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.")

[–] circularfish@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

We note further that people who have isolated themselves from others or who live in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals or groups of people inclined or condemned to sociability.

Heed my blue check mark.