Dolly Chugh

I give some serious kudos to a book that made me rethink some of my long standing beliefs. For example, Dolly Chugh made the best argument I've heard for slave reparations and really made me rethink my blind spots to my own privileges.

I would call this book disturbing, in a great way. Yeah, my head is now less clear with the waters muddier ... and makes me doubt if it's possible to be a good, or goodish person. I get that ideally we should be looking at each person at humans with their own battles with demons and prejudices ... but how would we ever get anything done?

For example, just trying to choose a lunch at a restaurant for hundred people to agree on. How to deal with vegetarians, allergies, religious choices, price range .... and that doesn't just involve people who just don't like certain foods / restaurants. If we listen to each person's story individually, we would probably all starve. Somebody is going to get marginalized.

So I kept going back to two TV Shows that the family is watching now. There's the Good Place which I think is one of my top 10 shows ever ... and how it's so difficult to get to the good place because the world is so much more complicated nowadays ... and Grownish with one character saying ... maybe we should all get used to being a little uncomfortable (marginalized)?
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