The thing that drives me crazy is we both have a biology degree and he's a very well respected evolutionary biologist with dozens of publications.

But there is no reasoning with him despite everything we learned together in university.

You are a better person than me. I just can't fake it.

We were persecuted and yet we are the ones who must try to understand why they did that, and to forgive them, despite them not caring about our experience of being forced to live as a pariah.

That was the toughest part of resisting: Knowing up-front, that's how it would end.