Mustafa Abu Aaliyah

Prominence is a privilege of being right

I once saw a video of people criticizing their political opponent and invalidating their political position by saying:

“your truth has been the narrative of this country for [x] decades”, meaning that now it is their time to step down as it is other people’s turn to make the narrative theirs.

This is wrong, plainly. Truth is not relative or dependent on whose “turn” it is. Maybe having the narrative for a long time is the reward of actually being aligned with *the* truth.

Regardless of what someone believes about the concept of people’s “truths” and “your and my truth”, if you care more about that than the right of actual truth to flourish regardless of who holds it, you are trivializing and tribalizing truth.

Prominence is a privilege of being right.