Anyway,
Everyone has bigotry to unlearn, and being marginalized does not make you immune to this. You can even be bigoted against the group you are a part of, because internalized bigotry is a thing. No one is immune to this.
And since people seemed really offended about this: no, this doesn't mean you are "forever unclean" or whatever hyperbolic thing you think it means. It just means we all grow up in societies that teach us shitty stuff, and it takes continuous effort to unlearn it. People aren't perfect, but that doesn't make you a bad person. It makes you human.
Yes, you will have to spend your whole life unlearning this shit, and you will have to spend your whole life learning new things about other identities, because surprise! Human society is not stagnant, and bigotry is complicated.
You cannot possibly know everything there is to know about an issue, not even for a marginalization you personally experience. I don't know everything there is to know about the trans experience, or misogyny, or being disabled. There will always be something new for me to learn.
To pretend you can learn about a certain issue once and you're now a perfect person for the rest of your life is ridiculous. If you think you shouldn't have to constantly learn new things to keep improving yourself as a person, you are lazy. Every person has a chance to do good in the world. If you squander your chances to make the world a better place, that's lazy. And by lazy, I mean you have the energy and the means to learn more, and you are choosing not to.
And personally, this quest for education isn't a burden. This is joy. It is joyful to learn. It is joyful to make myself more caring, more knowledgeable, more accepting of people different from me.




















