Telling a wronged teenager to move on made her conceal her grievance work.
Evidence
Her parents suggested she forget the past and concentrate instead on her schoolwork. Rather than compelling her to study, the admonition caused her to hide most of her research. And at night she continued to cry over her resignation, unable to let it go. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 376
Categorization
- APHORISMS: Advice to ‘move on’ from an injustice rarely resolves it; it tends to drive the grievance underground.