Dear Gen Z,

In 1992 Sinéad O'Connor ripped a picture of the Pope in half on Saturday Night Live to protest the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. She was roundly condemned except by a few.

In the years and decades that followed the truth came out and the scope of abuse within the Catholic Church came to light. Many, but not enough, were punished. Many, but no where near enough, victims were heard, believed and lived to see some measure of justice.

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Very few people who condemned her then apologised.

In your lives you will see people speak the truth. It might be uncomfortable. They might not do it "the right way." It will still be the truth. Meet their brash bravery with kindness and an open ear.

Do better than we did. Not for us but for her.

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@lyda

ok... so I just did some basic level searching, woah...

I think currently, there are alot of just fake stories and baseless accusations going on right now.

That's not going to get better into the future, I don't think.

But, if you are wrong on something, and you can see it.

Make sure to make sure to restate where you are at, and why.

Make sure to make it right from there, because ultimately you just can't get it fully right.

My ask that you correct your previous statements

@lyda

I'm incredibly shortening my statements here, because well character limit, lemme switch to my other account

Basically, my only ask to people who don't believe these statements and allegations at first, and find further proof to those allegations. Is to just acknowledge that you had it wrong in the first place.

Of course this case (with the catholic church isn't what i'm referring to), I'm more talking about the scandals that happen now.

But the same principles apply. If you don't find enough there, and find into the future that there is overwhelming proof, then make sure to acknowledge that those previous things you thought were wrong. That is ultimately the first step of learning. Ultimately information is dynamic (I think so atleast, information ties together and adding information or invalidating information makes one big over arching information, thus making it dynamic). Making it where you can't fully be sure of anything. (which is super fun, right?)

My words are jumbled now, since I wrote that first post, and it's jumbling my thoughts.