Matt Damon, 'months ago'

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39. right, not the full extent

...just a disturbing aspect in which I've never found comfort in just one expression of contrition.

People who do good things can be just as ignorant and hurtful with their words as others. I believe its a mindset that either compels you to either say hurtful things in public without regard to others, or to be polite or respectful of others. My own experience as an adult is that these things aren't so complicated when you take others around you into consideration.

Mindfulness works both ways. I don't believe Matt Damon didn't know the term was hurtful. I think its an uncaring state of mind that erases concerns about these things, rationalizes them away. I don't think caring people express themselves this way in public, in the way Matt Damon apparently expressed himself. That's been my experience.

I once saw a prominent actor in a campaign loudly evicerate an elderly, iconic activist in public in support of meaningful causes she was supposedly promoting or advocating. I couldn't see past the abuse she was leveling at the woman. That's still my only concern, not what the fool was advocating.