I'm a white person who is unaffected by these issues in a direct way but I've heard from people who do feel affected by it that it can be harmful. Their perspective is one I can't live, so I can only listen. It's surprising for me that others would not be open to listening and I find it depressing that their feelings on this are villainized and dismissed here as being part of a "culture war."
Of course it's easy to categorically deny with what they say if you refuse to listen, and I'm sure everything seems like a war when you start putting people into factions that can inherently not agree and are inherently unable to talk through issues with a mutual openness.
Of course it's easy to categorically deny with what they say if you refuse to listen, and I'm sure everything seems like a war when you start putting people into factions that can inherently not agree and are inherently unable to talk through issues with a mutual openness.