In our current {American} culture—where me first attitudes and thinly veiled racism and sanctioned bullying have become commonplace—I frequently ponder how I can better prepare the Agents to be forces for good as they grow up. So I started making a list, and the list started to expand, and I started to ramble, and then I realized I could summarize it all into six main points.
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- Privilege is a thing. If you don’t understand it, learn. If you have it {spoiler alert: you do} acknowledge it. Then use it to help someone who doesn’t.
- It is possible care about more than one issue/problem/group at a time. Compassion does not limit you to a dichotomy of caring about this at the expense of that.
- People are more important than symbols, rituals, or traditions. You can still respect the symbols, rituals, and traditions, but people always come first.
- No one aspect of your personality defines you. Or anyone else. So don’t judge someone by the one thing you know about them.
- In general it’s better to support what you love than to bash what you hate, but that doesn’t mean a little edginess is never required or appropriate. Sometimes that is the only way to break through.
- If you’re ever tempted to say someone else deserves less than what you have because of . . . reasons . . . you might want to evaluate those reasons.
What would you add to this list?
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