Education and anger

[plymouth]

If you hang around communities that are into various forms of social justice advocacy for a while there are a couple of themes you will start to hear repeatedly. One of those is that oppressed people have a right to be angry - that we tried being nice to our oppressors and it didn't work so now we're doing angry. A related theme is that we don't

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[funcrunch]

I hear you. I'm dealing with trying to tone down the anger too. Yoga and meditation are helping with that somewhat. As I blogged recently, I'm trying to apply the principle of ahimsa to my speech as well as my actions.

[oscuridad]

Hey-- just had a browse through your journal and you seem eloquent, intelligent, and interesting. Fancy being LJ friends? These days my blog is much more overwork-underpaid than international woman of mystery, but check it out if you'd like :)

[funcrunch]

Thanks for the kudos! I keep my LJ friendslist restricted to only people I've interacted with in person (and really only a small subset of those), as I post a fair amount of personal stuff friendslocked and don't want to deal with filters to remember who's allowed to see what. But I do appreciate the invitation :-)

[plymouth]

I certainly wasn't suggesting you NEVER get angry. Sometimes you just gotta.