https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/115773818039339000
this is what really sets leftists apart from liberals imo.
liberals like to decorate themselves with the nimbus of morality but when it comes to stepping up to fascism and protesting even if it's not like a fun parade but serious and uncomfortable. Or just if the weather is bad.
Or when it comes to being self critical about your own learned patterns of behavior and thinking.. they are nowhere to be seen, not to be relied on and it does real damage, as we can see.
I don't agree with the last bit. What you do is what you are. But the rest is good.
To quote Chidi from the good place:
I miss mister Adagonye!
It is literally saying that your values are what you do even when no one is watching, meaning not picking and choosing/
If you need to clear your nose out, then when other people aren't watching you might well be picking ...
Or wiping my ass, which I don't do in front of other people either. It isn't referring to every literal thing we do.
The context is about whether someone does the right thing when not being watched. As on their virtues aren't just performative.
I was specifically making a wordplay joke about the word "picking" ... never mind.
It doesn't really work in the context as written, but now I see what you are going for. If you had gone with '...choosing to be picking' I probably would have caught it.
I'm reading it as your values determine what you do, what you do determines who you are