Doing harassment prevention training for work and saw this. Since I often see people demanding a citation for “intent doesn’t matter” here’s one straight from the Eastern Michigan University harassment training manual.
I wish more people would realise how this applied to this and more situations as well
“But I didn’t mean to hurt you!”
“But I didn’t mean to say something offensive!”
“But I didn’t mean to write something problematic!”
“But I didn’t mean to upset anyone”
YOU DID
Apologise for it, learn from it, don’t do it again
Don’t act like just because you didn’t INTEND to hurt anyone that means the people you hurt should just accept it
Aw Yiss 