You can try to understand someone without excusing or condoning their toxic values, beliefs, practices, etc. Kind of like the difference between 'explaining' and 'excusing': "Here's why I did this bad thing, here were my thought processes, but there's still no excuse for what I did."
Trying to understand why people are the way they are is…
You can try to understand someone without excusing or condoning their toxic values, beliefs, practices, etc. Kind of like the difference between 'explaining' and 'excusing': "Here's why I did this bad thing, here were my thought processes, but there's still no excuse for what I did."
Trying to understand why people are the way they are isn't to excuse them, the mistake commonly made by some liberals ("Aw, poor baby, it's not their fault!"), but to better understand how we can fight their toxicity. Esp since we all think we react to each other for reasons that are largely hidden from us in our unconscious.
I don't think we should let Trumpers and the woke 'live and let live', but seek to fight their toxicity.
They might even be able to help *us* locate our *own* toxicity...and we all have some, even if it doesn't wear a red cap or a #StayWoke shirt.
You can try to understand someone without excusing or condoning their toxic values, beliefs, practices, etc. Kind of like the difference between 'explaining' and 'excusing': "Here's why I did this bad thing, here were my thought processes, but there's still no excuse for what I did."
Trying to understand why people are the way they are isn't to excuse them, the mistake commonly made by some liberals ("Aw, poor baby, it's not their fault!"), but to better understand how we can fight their toxicity. Esp since we all think we react to each other for reasons that are largely hidden from us in our unconscious.
I don't think we should let Trumpers and the woke 'live and let live', but seek to fight their toxicity.
They might even be able to help *us* locate our *own* toxicity...and we all have some, even if it doesn't wear a red cap or a #StayWoke shirt.