Your intentions do not matter when you're hurting people, period. You know this, because you're objecting to the pushback that you're getting, regardless of anybody else's intentions.
Saying "but maybe it's OK for people to claim that you don't belong" doesn't make you a hero; it makes you complicit.
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Your intentions do not matter when you're hurting people, period. You know this, because you're objecting to the pushback that you're getting, regardless of anybody else's intentions.
Saying "but maybe it's OK for people to claim that you don't belong" doesn't make you a hero; it makes you complicit.