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Bill Cole 🇺🇦
@grumpybozo@toad.social
No need to empathize with others to acknowledge pain & oppose abuse.
I’m never going to claim to understand the feelings of non-white or non-cis people. I can’t. I got a lot of gender-tinged peer abuse as a kid but it didn’t bite. A school counselor once called me “unnervingly stoic.” I won’t ever feel constrained or oppressed by society for who I am.
And yet, I can still look at the world rationally & hear the truth of people who justifiably have such feelings, and fight their oppression.