Conservative white folks like to read emotions & discussion of privilege, oppression & justice as being triggered. Triggered to them means we are bad for having feelings, but emotion (including empathy, joy & pleasure) must be at the heart of justice & our humanity.
Patriarchy’s insistence on denying emotion has so deeply harmed many men & masculine folks who suppress emotion & then become violent. Healing justice requires all of us to heal, even those who are privileged. But they can’t heal until they admit they do harm & have been harmed.
I love this video on the subject of holding harm do-era accountable:
