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That complete meltdown was made even worse by the most tragic element of it: levels of xenophobia and racist abuse in the streets of Britain at a level that I have never seen before in my lifetime.
The psychologist Steven Pinker and others have shown that all around the world people are becoming less and less accepting of suffering in ever-widening circles of others, which has led to declines of all kinds of cruelty and violence, from animal abuse to domestic violence to capital punishment.
Working-class kids are much more likely to face what's called adverse childhood experiences, which is just a fancy word for childhood trauma: getting hit or yelled at, put down by a parent repeatedly, watching someone hit or beat your parent, watching someone do drugs or abuse alcohol.
Not only that, but thousands of men and women suffer every day from sexual abuse, often in silence, yet it's still a problem we don't give the same airtime to as other issues.
I am constantly stunned by major breaches of trust: the News Corp phone hacking, the Volkswagen emissions scandal, the widespread abuse in the Catholic Church, the fact that only one measly banker went to jail after the great financial crisis, or more recently the Panama Papers that revealed how the rich can exploit offshore tax regimes.
Now, we will see cases of abuse of distributed trust.
I have received violent death threats and abuse for daring to make work that centers fat people's bodies and lives and treats us as worthwhile human beings with valuable stories to tell.
And hundreds of millions are facing exploitation and abuse, and violence.
One out of every three women will face physical abuse or sexual abuse in her lifetime.
And they inspire me even more because although our society is telling them, you're not wanted, you're not needed here, and they're highly vulnerable and subject to abuse, to wage theft, to exploitation and xenophobic attacks, many of them are also beginning to organize in their communities.
Calypsol has another name, ketamine, which also goes by another name, Special K, which is a club drug and drug of abuse.
Whether in tech or finance, sports or the service industry, every day we seem to hear another story about an abuse of power or another grossly inappropriate workplace behavior.
Kids we are losing to forced marriages, to honor-based violence and abuse.
And I also realized that my silence, our silence, allows abuse like this to continue.
And when we curb abuse, we will expand freedom.
I started to write about sharing the fact that I'm a survivor of all forms of sexual abuse, including three rapes.
We started something called the Speech Project; curbing abuse, expanding freedom.
My inbox is full of hate mails and personal abuse and has been for years.
And it's very easy to abuse this power.
If you give people power without oversight, it's a prescription for abuse.
In this report, he says it was the environment that created Abu Ghraib, by leadership failures that contributed to the occurrence of such abuse, and because it remained undiscovered by higher authorities for a long period of time.
Degenerate, perverted adults use the internet to abuse boys and girls and take advantage of, among other things, the fact that the kids and their parents think that what happens online doesn't actually happen.
I'm sure lots of you find it odd to think one person can abuse another without physical contact.
One more strange epidemic in the United States that I want to acquaint you with is this phenomenon of abuse and misuse of prescription drugs.
And so, as you stand back, you see 213,000 Vicodin pills, which is the number of hospital emergency room visits yearly in the United States, attributable to abuse and misuse of prescription painkillers and anti-anxiety medications.
When they censored me when I was 24, I learned that neutrality, fear and silence often make you an accomplice in crime, abuse and injustice.
Reefs there have suffered through centuries of intense human abuse.
I must suffer if I lose it, give account if I abuse it.
And over 150 people have been connected to mental health substance abuse services through There's a Better Way.
It used to be that our government didn't have the ability to do widespread, massive surveillance on hundreds of millions of Americans and then abuse that information.
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