![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a call to activism rooted in the individual story, grounded in personal experience.”Īnother Twitter user chimed in to add that, “it’s also a well-known tactic in building leadership in community organizing that allows people who are rarely heard to tell their story, learn that they are, in fact, not alone, connects individual experiences to systemic issues, and helps develop powerful public speakers.”Īnd yet, others chimed in to ask: What about the people whose earnestly held “truth” is that immigrants are ruining America or that the white race is inherently superior to all others or that the rules set forth in Leviticus or the Koran are the only way to live or that the latest Alex Jones conspiracy theory is correct or that climate change is a hoax cooked up by liberals to gain control over all aspects of life in the United States? ![]() Well, Garance Franke-Ruta replied, “sometimes you know something is real and happened and is wrong, even if the world says it’s just the way things are. On Monday, as Oprah Winfrey’s stirring acceptance speech at the Golden Globes secured a place in the national conversation, Byron Tau of The Wall Street Journal tweeted, “Oprah employed a phrase that I’ve noticed a lot of other celebrity using these days: ‘your truth’ instead of ‘the truth.’ Why that phrasing?” He fretted that “your truth” undermines the idea of shared common facts. ![]()
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