an ongoing discussion/moment of clarity.
words.
"These cases all demonstrate, in the most stark and brutal way, just how dangerous and destructive preconceived and ill-formed beliefs can be, especially when those beliefs are grounded in centuries of prejudice and poisonous race relations. An honest belief shouldn’t get you off the hook if that belief turns out to be horseshit. Beliefs are not a shield. Beliefs are not immutable. They’re not even a good thing in and of themselves, because without questioning they become dogma. They’re something that should be constantly questioned, because left unquestioned, it doesn’t matter how heartfelt they are; they’re the sort of thing that can lead you to shoot a 12-year-old in a park."
FLAVORWIRE: Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, and the Dangers of Blind Belief
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