“Recognizing the ways in which things are problematic – and, um, just about everything is problematic in some sense – doesn’t mean that we have to entirely distance ourselves from them.
It just means that we need to be cognizant of them, talk to other people about them, and constantly reevaluate what it means for us to partake in them – both for ourselves and for society-at-large.”
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