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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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apostaz
@apostazk
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@Aella_Girl
Yes! Posturing as if we have all the ethical answers is ineffective at solving problems AND it also betrays human complexity. From experience growing up in a community of religious black/white thinking, I know the inability to question leads only to exorcisms, fear, and hate
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@TheSkdm
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@Aella_Girl
And that's why we stand with you, in this time of cultural bickering, everybody playing identity fucking politics you're the one to truly stand out and remember everybody is an individual, complex and multifaceted as they might be
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@MrBoomshanka
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@Aella_Girl
It's just that anecdotal evidence is bullshit. I'm a mixed race Brit, half South African and half English. I've never heard the trope that black people cat call more than white. And in the UK the stereotype is reversed. Maybe you should be open to being wrong
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Kyle
@serptopia
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@Aella_Girl
I agree in principal, but you didn't follow up your two examples with any comment on how/if they actually did help you learn about the people or stories involved, or increased your compassion for them. If you didn't, don't your examples fall pretty flat?
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