Reply #124: confusion is what happens when Creationists meet people who have evolved

[omega minimo]

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From another post:

There are grey areas, yes. There are ways to discuss that encourage or discourage people from participating or fully listening, yes. We can be "magnanimous" and patient but let's not coddle people who don't want to be openminded or worse -- are willfully ignorant.

"Progressives who empathize with the fight against racism have to do something magnanimous to start this conversation."

The author uses an important word. Empathize. The real trick to understanding or dialogue or basic tolerance for starters is approaching the subject with some basic empathy, relating to another's experience as if it might be your own.

There will always be grey areas. There will always be things we don't say for fear of being misunderstood. There will always be faux pas. And we can own up to them. We don't have to "turn the other cheek" to bigots. We have to have the courage of our convictions, to NOT succumb to the fear that this author presents as a given.


Grey areas mean we step out of black and white thinking. :bounce: