Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’
Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’
Dusty Farr says “it’s uplifting when you can actually accept the way things are, and you’re not carrying that unfounded hate and unfounded disgust."
Better late than never! 🥳
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It shouldn't take until your own flesh and blood is affected to care about other people.
And part of the problem is that for so many even that isn't enough.
Yes, it shouldn’t. But when someone changes like this we need to let them own the change rather than complain it shouldn’t have taken so much to change. He admitted fault and chose his child, he finally gained perspective. No different than convicts should be forgiven after serving their time in prison, he did his time locked in his hate, and found a road out whether we feel it selfish or not.
100% - it's not bad that he switched, he should be embraced.
Embraced>Embarrassed.
To those who downvoted this, obviously there are some hard limits to this idea, paradox of tolerance and all.
It's a good point. However it is worth noting that conservatives are like this. Not sure how it can be used to rehabilitate them or whatever, but maybe it could be