People who fail to recognize imbalance and inequity are most often those who stand to benefit from it. Because political structures work for them, it may be hard to imagine the insidious ways that forces of power are enacted on the vulnerable. This interpretation provides benefit of doubt and assumptions of benevolence, neither of which are granted to the vulnerable, nor afforded by them in the face of oppressive structures. Legality doesn’t equal morality or freedom from reproach or critique. It doesn’t mean freedom from consequence.

   

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