More in reference to @HeerJeet's ongoing twitter essay:
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My historical specialty is writing about people who meant well but failed because they couldn't or wouldn't give up their privilege.
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A souther Catholic bishop who believed in racial integration but who drove most of his diocese's African-Americans out of the church because
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he wouldn't give up his own power and couldn't see how his form of integration hurt both white and especially black Catholics.
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Or relief officials, philanthropists, and military officers who tried to help disaster victims but revictimized them by ordering them about.
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The biggest difficulty in my writing is conveying that these weren't bad, evil people. They had good intentions. But they failed.
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And they failed precisely because they were blinded by their good intentions and couldn't see beyond them.
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Jacob Remes Retweeted Jeet Heer
So I am wary of statements like
@HeerJeet's here:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/536001670715437057 …Jacob Remes added,
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I am wary of talking about historical moral judgments, because so often it's cloudy. (Wary not meaning I disagree with Jeet's main thurst.)
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@jacremes 9 times out of 10, if I study someone closely I'm more forgiving, but there's the 1 time where a harsh moral judgement inescapable
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