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I trust someone who has fallen into darkness and returned to the light a lot more than I trust a paragon who has never known temptation. On its face. There are people who still carry the darkness with them. Trans women who didn't stop being bullies but just chose more acceptable targets. But those of us who have hated and been shown hate is wrong… I think that's a beautiful thing. What happened in your past is between you and your victims, and its up to you to make peace with them. But I'm not here to beat you up over actions you already know were stupid and wrong
My brain first read that as a "pigeon who has never known temptation". I was like, I don't think I've ever seen a pigeon that hasn't known and then immediately indulged in temptation.
I yearn for a world where we may all be pigeons, and perpetuate no harm in the process
I haven't ever really fallen into the temptation I guess... but I did know someone who fell into the darkness and never returned out of it alive. I have had to fight eight fascists at once for ripping away their posters. They threw rocks at me.
I still removed the posters a few days after. In fact, my resolve has only strengthened more to end these fascist fuckers' hatred for once and all!
I have so much love for you for this. Be safe, be with friends and comrades who can watch your, mask up etc.
Oh definitely! I pick safety when I can, but when I can't, I look for another opportunity to remove the bad stuff.
Well I was working off the wisdom that nobody hates ciggerettes like an ex smoker but I suppose someone who watched a friend waste away from lung cancer probably would.
"What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
I would trust someone who has learned to grow to grow more in the future, but I would also be wary of things from their past they have not yet resolved. I don't know if it really makes sense to rank someone who has ascended to being good higher or lower than someone who was always good for the purposes of future events.
There's a certain type of person who takes pride in the fact they've never shoplifted while never having been close enough to the poverty line to know desparation. Who cannot understand the concept of genuine nessessity. Who thinks the hand people were dealt in life should not be considered in a moral measure of their character. For want of a better word, a privileged person.
I don't trust someone untested by life because there's a strong chance they'll heel turn the second something doesn't go their way. Its easy to be generous when you have a billion dollars to give away if that makes sense
Yeah the person with a darker past can easily be one of those homophobic straight trans people, racist white queer people, misogynistic queer men, or transphobic queer people. I've met plenty of them in my time. They typically just accepted that it was wrong for them to be mistreated, and many get weird about their biases against other marginalized groups.
I've also met folks who never learned to unpack a bias because they were never worth the social conflict to correct.
And so who do I trust? Nobody, anyone can have a hidden harmful bias. But more realistically, I trust people who do the work and try to be open to criticism when they hurt someone.