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With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy
With Charity Toward None A Fond Look at Misanthropy Author:Florence King Florence King contends it's okay to be misanthropic. We live in what she calls "the Republic of Nice," in which it is important to appear pleasant and likable and caring, a pose that imposes strains and creates hypocrisy. Niceness as practiced by Americans is a festival of misanthropy denied," she writes. "Our feminized niceness has mired us in ... more »a soft, sickly, helpless tolerance of everything." In this atmosphere you're always being tested for niceness, and your politics becomes an easy index of your concern for humanity. The safest course is to subscribe to as many liberal causes as you possibly can.
With Charity Toward None is a sort of assertiveness-training course for victims of niceness.« less