We should also regularly doubt ourselves, and question what has shaped our own thinking, what unconscious biases we might harbour, and whether we might be wrong. All of us have limited understanding of most things, most especially of the lived experiences of other people. It seems so obvious to state that men won’t understand sexism the way women do, straight people won’t fathom homophobia the way the LGBTQI people can, and white people are extremely poor judges of what racism is. Much as we might like to fancy ourselves freethinkers, all of us carry our pasts in our
