that extends to the notions of accountability, restorative justice, transformative justice, and most of the related terms that have taken hold in social justice culture - though i do very strongly believe in integrity, honesty, and personal honour (while “integrity” is a word that one hears used fairly frequently in social justice circles, honesty and honour as i know them are values that come to me through my Chinese family and upbringing. If you are the abused party, healing that hurt is not your responsibility, and exacerbating that pain is not your justified right” - EMERGENT STRATEGY, adrienne maree brown If you can look through the lens of compassion, you will find hurt and trauma there. The behaviors of abuse are also survival based, learned behaviors rooted in some pain. “You have the right to tell your story You do not have the right to traumatize abusive people, to attack them publicly, or to sabotage anyone else’s health.
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