Sarah McBride
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567 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Sarah McBride’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that not fighting, not taking the bait, that's not a sign of weakness.
It's not unprincipled.
Discipline and strategy are signs of strength.
And
I think in the social media world, we have lulled ourselves into thinking the only way to fight is to fight.
It's to scream and it's to yell and it's to do it on every instance.
And anytime you don't do it, you're normalizing the behavior that's coming your way.
which is both a ridiculously unfair burden to place on every single human being to have to fight every single indignity.
But by that logic, the young Black students who were walking into a school that was being integrated in the late 50s and 60s, who were walking forward calmly and with dignity and grace into that school as people screamed slurs at them,
By that definition, that student was normalizing those slurs by not responding.
Instead, what that student was doing was providing the public with a very clear visual.
a very clear contrast between unhinged hatred and basic dignity and grace, which is fundamental to humanity.
And for me, one of the things that I struggled with after that was the lack of grace that I got from some in my own community who said that I was reinforcing
the behavior of the people who were coming after me, that I was not responding appropriately to the bullying that I was facing, when the reality is that behavior has diminished significantly because I removed the incentive for them to continue to do it, because the incentive was so blatantly about attention, and I wasn't going to let them get the attention that they wanted.
Yes, absolutely.
Early on in those first few weeks, I had some folks text me as I was responding the way that I was.
And they said, you should watch 42, which is the movie about Jackie Robinson.
And I am not comparing my experience to Jackie Robinson at all, at all.
But there's a scene in that movie that's so...
illustrative of these dynamics, which is he's meeting with the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers is trying to sort of provoke him into anger.
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