Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
I see so many of you twisting yourselves into knots, calling out what you think is hypocrisy.
You're stunned by the contradictions:
Leaders who demand “law and order” while openly breaking the law.
Politicians who preach “family values” while gutting resources for actual families.
Executives who tout DEI in press releases while silencing marginalized employees behind closed doors.
And yes, on the surface, it looks like hypocrisy.
But here’s the thing: it’s not.
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
But for the powerful, civility is optional. They’re allowed to rage, dismiss, interrupt, mock, all without consequence.
So no, what you’re witnessing is not hypocrisy.
It’s entitlement.
It’s centuries of unearned power operating without accountability.
And here’s what I want you to understand:
You don’t need to waste energy pointing out hypocrisy to people who never cared about the “rules” in the first place.
Stop appealing to values they never held.
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
The rules were never for them.
They were for you.
To manage you. To control you. To keep you hoping that if you “play the game right,” that someday you’ll win.
It’s the same problem I have with so-called “civility.”
Civility, like so many of these rules, is only expected of those without power.
It’s used to police tone, suppress dissent, and make people more palatable to those who benefit from their silence.
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
Hypocrisy requires pretending, a disconnect between one’s claimed values and actual behavior.
But once you start unpacking the intentional and strategic nature of how our systems, institutions are built and designed to protect power, not distribute it, you realize something deeper:
They’re not hypocrites.
They just never believed in those values to begin with.
What you’re seeing isn’t a breakdown of the system.
You’re seeing it work exactly as intended.
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
Instead, take note.
Name it for what it is.
And ask yourself: How can I use this moment as leverage?
What conversations can I spark?
What structures can I disrupt?
What communities can I build that make their playbook obsolete?
Because if we keep playing by rules that were never meant to protect us, we’ll keep getting played.
We’ll keep holding out hope that someday we’ll win a game a that we were NEVER intended to play.
Rich Felker
@TomasHradcky @KimCrayton1 Small-minded evil people are prone to misinterpreting a death-spiral surge as winning, throwing away all the plausible deniability they previously held onto.
The question is whether we'll utilize that to put them away forever as soon as we have the chance, or be ruled by leaders who want to go back to pretending they didn't really mean the things they did and let them go back to waiting for their next chance.
TomasHradcky
@KimCrayton1 An amazing thread. I wonder if they think they’ve won since there is very little effort to hide this anymore. Or is it that with enough effort we can now get more true information?
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
The future we’re fighting for doesn’t need performative morality.
It needs clarity.
It needs strategy.
It needs collective refusal to accept systems that were never built for our thriving.
#ItsNotHypocrisy #PowerOverPrinciple #SystemsNotAccidents #ProfitWithoutOppression #CivilityIsNotNeutral #DisruptToRebuild #PWOCommunity #TheFutureIsFREE
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