Comments on: Grey Hat Thinking: The Reconciliation BVS http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/ Escape - Search - Think Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:37:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Carlo http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/#comment-41221 Carlo Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:29:24 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/#comment-41221 I would like to say sorry to my son, for making him feel dumb or useless. For allowing my own shortcomings to interfere with his individual pursuit of happiness and self discovery. I would like to say sorry to my son, for making him feel dumb or useless. For allowing my own shortcomings to interfere with his individual pursuit of happiness and self discovery.

]]> By: anthony http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/#comment-41131 anthony Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:12:28 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/#comment-41131 I would like to say sorry not only to the "Stolen Generation" but also the thousands of Aboriginals ill treated by do gooding government officials and missionaries and also those victims of massacres and slavery that is so often forgotten or denied. I would like to say sorry not only to the “Stolen Generation” but also the thousands of Aboriginals ill treated by do gooding government officials and missionaries and also those victims of massacres and slavery that is so often forgotten or denied.

]]> By: joanne http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/#comment-40999 joanne Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:33:29 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/#comment-40999 I agree 100% with the government officially saying sorry and I have been talking with many people about it. I am still finding that people are locked into the mindset of "I didn't do it or this current government didn't do it, so why should I be saying sorry?" The answers is that saying sorry doesn't mean the same thing as saying it's my fault. If you see someone (or collectively a group of people) who have been hurt then surely the most natural thing in the world is to say "I am sorry for your pain, I am sorry for the hurt you have suffered and I would like to do what I can to help you recover." That sentiment applies equally well regardless of if it was you or your ancestor who did the hurt or if there was no connection at all between you and the people who have been hurt. It also applies regardless of the intent - some people may genuinely have thought they were doing the right thing and yet as we know people were hurt and have developed scars that have continued to trouble them for the rest of their lives. For that can we not all be genuinely sorry? I agree 100% with the government officially saying sorry and I have been talking with many people about it. I am still finding that people are locked into the mindset of “I didn’t do it or this current government didn’t do it, so why should I be saying sorry?” The answers is that saying sorry doesn’t mean the same thing as saying it’s my fault.

If you see someone (or collectively a group of people) who have been hurt then surely the most natural thing in the world is to say
“I am sorry for your pain, I am sorry for the hurt you have suffered and I would like to do what I can to help you recover.”

That sentiment applies equally well regardless of if it was you or your ancestor who did the hurt or if there was no connection at all between you and the people who have been hurt. It also applies regardless of the intent - some people may genuinely have thought they were doing the right thing and yet as we know people were hurt and have developed scars that have continued to trouble them for the rest of their lives. For that can we not all be genuinely sorry?

]]> By: George Kruszewski http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/#comment-40190 George Kruszewski Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:11:53 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2008/grey-hat-thinking-the-reconciliation-bvs/#comment-40190 I'm living in Poland, where contempt towards ex-Communists is endemic. Christian forgiveness and reconciliation is ignored in ultra-Catholic Poland, especially by powerful red-hatted Cardinals. Grey Hat Thinking needed urgently? I’m living in Poland, where contempt towards ex-Communists is endemic. Christian forgiveness and reconciliation is ignored in ultra-Catholic Poland, especially by powerful red-hatted Cardinals. Grey Hat Thinking needed urgently?

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