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Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’

What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

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Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)

what an excellent statement

what if when people said they were hurting, instead of telling them to get used to hurting, we tried to work with them to come up with ways to reduce their hurts ! dang.

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