Like many this year, I have been struggling. Specifically, with the ugliness on display in this country: the racism, the misogyny, the sexism, the homophobia, the transphobia, the xenophobia. These things have always existed, but they seem to have moved to the forefront. Or maybe I am just more clearly seeing it.
It likely seems worse because we have started to wake up to the fact that none of these things were ever OK and that more or less accepting them as a part of life was horrendous. People are now saying these things can no longer be shrugged off.
"If these racists, sexists, homophobes, etc., actually experienced even a small window into the world of the people they so broadly label, maybe they would think twice."
Do you not see the irony or the hypocrisy of your own words?
You ask for the very thing that you aren't even willing to extend to someone with an opposing point of view.
Not really. Only for those that agree... If you continue to box out opposing thoughts or ideas as being bad or negative, you are only an echo chamber for the like-minded.
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"If these racists, sexists, homophobes, etc., actually experienced even a small window into the world of the people they so broadly label, maybe they would think twice."
Do you not see the irony or the hypocrisy of your own words?
You ask for the very thing that you aren't even willing to extend to someone with an opposing point of view.
You are stuck in the prison of, "Two Ideas".
Your hyperbole only continues the cycle...
Beautifully stated. Thank you.
Not really. Only for those that agree... If you continue to box out opposing thoughts or ideas as being bad or negative, you are only an echo chamber for the like-minded.
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