If we want this shit to get better, then we had better be willing to listen when someone has the courage to tell us how the feel.
What good is the 1st Ammendment if no one fucking ever listens?
You don’t need agree; but you should listen.
But...
Are your ideas magically going to win the debate somehow, by not listening? Or is the self-isolation going to reinforce the divisions?
It’s already fucking there and people are telling us.
Listen and understand the problem... THEN drive the solution!
Knowing that they exist means that what I believe in has failed to take root; it means, in some respects, that we have unaccounted/ignored failures!
It doesn’t mean you/I caused the failure; it means we haven’t prevented it.
Listen. Understand. Drive the solution.