Stop Asking People To Prove Their Feelings

<p><em>(&ldquo;Height&rdquo; in quotations because I realize this is a relative &amp; subjective term. What felt like the &ldquo;height&rdquo; to me might be different for others.)</em></p> <p>I couldn&rsquo;t quite make sense of so many of the<em>&nbsp;new-to-me</em>&nbsp;narratives and societal under-weavings.</p> <p>The term &ldquo;white privilege&rdquo; didn&rsquo;t sitting well with me at first.</p> <p>I talked to my other white friends about it.</p> <p>I felt defensive.</p> <p>I kept trying&nbsp;<em>(in my head)</em>&nbsp;to rebut the &ldquo;arguments&rdquo; I was hearing, trying to poke holes in them and disprove them. Like that was even possible, given I had never had any of the experiences about which these people were sharing.&nbsp;<strong>Like feelings needed statistics to be real.</strong></p> <p><a href="https://emilyjsteele.medium.com/stop-asking-people-to-prove-their-feelings-9786d95f66a1"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>