Exactly. I went through similar growth with LGBTQ friends and classmates in Fasion and Art studies…

In positive guilt, you know you engaged in racist behavior/action. Still, you also operate with an intrinsic understanding that you can divorce yourself from the behavior/action to effectively not do it again. You’re actively, effectively listening to that Black friend of yours, not giving them headaches due to your white fragility. In positive guilt, you do not define your self-esteem by the actions you can remove yourself from. …
“I Don’t Have White Guilt!”
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Jan 10, 2023
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Exactly. I went through similar growth with LGBTQ friends and classmates in Fasion and Art studies when I was in undergrad school, after I was finally free of my fundamentalist evangelical upbringing. I had a lot of baggage to unlearn.
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