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The New York Times / Jacey Fortin / Jul 17, 2019
“Stories like these typically pop up on social media, where they spread quickly and catch the attention of news organizations and spread even farther…Sweet stories like these, the critics say, hide an underlying rot. Individual acts of kindness don’t solve systemic problems — in fact, they can do harm by glossing over deeper issues.”
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