You need to understand my position: I'm a coward.

apricops:

apricops:

I say dumb and wrong stuff sometimes and tbh I’m gonna keep doing that! Not I nor anyone immediately realizes the most accurate and humane conclusion from a collection of information, and on here there’s kind of an attitude of “sending out a bad take is showing your own un-Wokeness”

But the thing is, you can’t not have an opinion when presented with information. You can clam up about it, sure, but your brain has already received information and started processing, synthesizing, and compiling it. That’s just what it does. If I keep my mouth shut about some dumb and controversial conclusion I reached that I’m not sure of, I don’t allow the opportunity for my misconceptions to be rectified, and sabotage my own intellectual rigor.

An important addendum to this is that I consider learning to be an inherently social process, and so you can only get away with doing that if you prove you can be humble and open-minded when corrected (which I would like to think I do)