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 Appease:

3. to yield to the demands of, in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of one’s principals.

Example:

Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler at Munich. 

When I was ten years old, I started 6th grade in a new school, about a half mile walk from home. As soon as I got to school this bully would beat me up and steal my quarter for lunch. I really feared going to school, and my father sensed this and took me aside to ask what was wrong.

After I told him, he said, “why don’t you think about what you should do and let me know how it works.”

So the next day I went to school with a plan. When the bully approached me I handed him the quarter. He took it and beat me up.

That night, very discouraged and angry I had another talk with my father. He gave me a little more advice.

The next day I went to school. When the bully approached and demanded my quarter, I said “NO. You can beat me up but its not going to be easy.”

I dropped my books and raised my fists.

I still got beat up.

But I got a few licks in and a pretty good punch to his nose.

He got my quarter, but the next day he left me alone, to pick on someone else that didn’t fight back.

The lesson?

You never appease a bully.
 

A lesson Chamberlain, Britain, and France learned the hard way in 1936.

A lesson liberals, appeasers, and pacifists have never learned.

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