I read two blog posts on Brené Brown’s website, Not Looking Away and Listening + Learning, about her perspectives on Palestine and Israel. Besides her point of view in both blogs, my learning also comes from comments people left for her. Disagreements in the comment section of the first blog were mainly to hold her accountable for what she said, the very concept Brené has been teaching the public how to do through her research work on shame, emotions, and the language of human experiences.
There is no doubt it's important and necessary to hold people in businesses, organizations, or systems accountable as the famous quote goes “With great power comes with great responsibility”.
She is courageous by not only sharing her opinions on topics guaranteed to have controversial reactions with transparency and honesty, but also allowing people to criticize, question her perspective, express themselves, and engage. She demonstrated her resilience in learning, self-reflection, and correcting her mistakes in the public eye.
This is so rare.
Her action has taught us the importance of holding people accountable, and the impact that she saw, now we all see, goes beyond the immediate strategy, solution, or binary answers.
All of us are learning here. Because of that, disagreements and counterarguments don’t make us enemies but partners to help each other discern and make the world a better place together.
