Guilt by Friendship — depending on your association

Ellen’s coming out about George started something worth wrestling with

Jodi Barnes, PhD
6 min readOct 16, 2019

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The word friend has become really fuzzy. Way before Ellen’s video about being friends with George W. Bush. Yet, strangely, all the social media backlash has brought two questions into focus:

  1. What is a friend versus being friendly?

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Jodi Barnes, PhD

Writer and Collaborator-in-Chief of https://www.14wordsforlove.com where small acts of writing, art and conversation create multicultural connections for good.