I believe that, if you pursue truth far enough, everything will be okay. On the other side, there will be compassion and acceptance. If it looks 'bad' on the way through, it's just because you don't have the full story, but this shouldn't stop you from acknowledging harsh truths.
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A lot of supposedly 'racist' stuff falls into this. It might look bad, but if you acknowledge it and keep pressing, you'll ultimately find that it leads you to greater compassion and acceptance for the group it's supposedly racist against. 2/
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For example, if you deny that black kids have worse educational outcomes, you lose the ability to properly look into *why* this is the case. If you deny even the possibility of black men catcalling more, you immediately shut down curiosity about what's going on behind it. 3/
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I don't feel fear of admitting truths that might seem 'bad.' I don't see them as bad. I believe under every 'bad' action there's a human being with a story. And freaking out at acknowledging 'badness' in groups just shuts down our ability to explore their stories.
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I jokingly call harsh/hard truths “very awful, no-good, very bad truths”- not because they’re actually bad, but because they’re just wildly uncomfortable and they take a lot of work to slog through. But always worth it...
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Remember that a guy died in the mad house after he figured out doctors washing hands will save the lives of the babies they delivered, and they refused, because the idea they were so dirty it was killing babies was offensive to them. People's negative responses can outlive you.
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