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I believe in the sacredness of bad experiences - that undergoing and processing painful things is inherently valuable and full of meaning, and that stepping directly into the thing that's hard to acknowledge - in both the world and yourself - is the key to growth and peace. So...

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 24, 2019

this is a reason why I sometimes feel sad about social justice. In social justice, bad experiences are not sacred - they must be eliminated. The sense of trauma or grief are treated like enemies instead of important, solemn friends. Pain is excised like a tumor.

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Being both meaningful/valuable AND important to minimize (especially when they're disproportionately experienced) are not mutually exclusive

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, would you mind addressing this point?

Aella

@Aella_Girl

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@SHLURPGOD

I'm realizing that tweets are a bad form for this; this is part of a significantly more nuanced philosophy. I'm not saying people shouldn't 'work to make things better,' I'm saying that there's a deeper way to handle pain mentally, independently of action.

9:14 PM · Jun 25, 2019

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Agreed that the character limit is restrictive. That's not how I'm taking your point - isn't that philosophy reductive through the lens of intersectional structural oppression? Process pain as meaningfully as you want, if it's inflicted disproportionately, that value is near null