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Racists Do Not Deserve Forgiveness

thenorthstar
Mar 13, 2019
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Racists do not deserve forgiveness. This is a position that I came to embrace over time. I wish I had come to this place sooner, and I wish it would come to more marginalized people sooner. I think it’s an important path to getting free.

I first began thinking seriously about forgiveness during a philosophy course I developed about the role of luck in ou…

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