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_refugee_ · 3982 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence - Adam Grant - The Atlantic
I'm getting kind of tired of the whole "Famous person in history did this! Wait - guess who it was - HITLER! gasp " rhetorical trick. I guess it's used to try and paint something in a negative light due to the association with, well, you know, all of that bad Hitler stuff. "If Hitler did it it must have been bad." But also, that old fact of MLK cheating on his wife: we aren't absolute as humans. Hitler really liked dogs or something, right? While I guess it works for shock value and interest, the fact that he did something doesn't then immediately make whatever that thing is evil or tainted. I bet Hitler brushed his teeth, too.