In class this week I was giving a presentation about slow violence, specifically environmental racism and environmental violence. I was using a violence theory to explain the violence that is perpetuated by different companies and corporations and I had to step back.
Who am I to judge why or how decisions are being made within companies? How do I "know" that companies are simply doing cost/risk assessment and decided that product profit was more important than healthy families? I can surely assume that, but it isn't fair. Furthermore, if those companies (and the people who run them) did that, don't they deserve a second chance?
I was happy that I was part of a community that helped me step back from what I was thinking and say, "hey, this is something I'm fundamentally against others doing, I shouldn't be doing this either."
So here's to my second chance at approaching grace the right. I'm happy to overthrow judgement and liberate love.
