Or even if they technically weren’t, that you should have avoided them entirely nonetheless out of decency. But I didn’t know that one day, I would not be able to discern if its microaggressions were intentional. We call that all kinds of bad things today, but, in fact, that’s actually what’s called progress. No, it’s the understanding that you’ll never reach it and that you cannot predict why from the moment you’re standing in. That’s what progress is.

Source: International New York Times September 08, 2021 09:00 UTC