>I’m saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: “What did you do?”
Wow. I think this deserves highlighting. It's powerful and beautiful.
Wow. I think this deserves highlighting. It's powerful and beautiful.
For another example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21804506
> Influential US Republican Senator Rob Portman has renounced his opposition to gay marriage. The Ohio senator said he began to change his mind in 2011 after his son, Will, revealed he was gay.
It's great that people change. It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it.
It only looks like a bug now because we are insisting on building complex, globalized societal configurations which don't play well with that limitation.
I believe it is called the Empathy Gap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap
Remember how the conservative establish was anti-marijuana, and before that anti-gay (well, still some are), and before that anti-mixed-race-marriage, and before that anti-long hair?