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Dear Tone Policing Colleagues
Tone policing is a tactic
Tone policing is a tool
Tone policing is a symptom
Tone policing is a diagnosis
Tone policing is a digression
Tone policing is a fear
Tone policing is harassment
Tone policing is a privilege
Tone policing is a policy
Tone policing is a threat
Tone policing is a result
Tone policing is gaslighting
Tone policing is a tactic for silencing us
Tone policing is a tool to keep us in place
Tone policing is a symptom of your anxiety, white crumbling fragility
Tone policing is a diagnosis of your alienation
Tone policing is a digression from real conversations
Tone policing is a fear of our voice, our ideas, your change
Tone policing is fear of your fear
Tone policing is a harassment of our thoughts
Tone policing is a slowly slipping privilege you are holding on to
Tone policing is a policy on your terms, not ours
Tone policing is a threat to your status quo
Tone policing is a result of your power no longer here
Tone policing is gaslighting
Tone policing is anti debates Tone policing is anti-intellectual
Tone policing is anti-reason Tone policing is harassment
Tone policing is racist Tone policing is sexist
Tone policing is anti-feminist Tone policing is homophobic and queerphobic
Tone policing is uncivil Tone policing should be banned
Tone policing is gaslighting
