Tolerance
I'm greatly concerned at the intolerance I witness from every direction nowadays.
Could I make an appeal to all my fellow humans across the globe (and particularly my fellow Americans):
Might it be possible for each of us to not see anyone with whom we disagree as an enemy? Of being worthy of dismissal as stupid and even of our hate as evil?
I find this certainty that "we're in the right" to be a quite dangerous trend. People are losing their jobs not just for disagreeing, but simply for adding a caveat or codicil to the present dogma. It is happening across the country. And, I imagine, in others.
This is how totalitarianism starts, by projecting evil onto anyone with whom we disagree. Because as evil or idiotic they merit suppression, exclusion, censorship.
In the words of Rodney King, "Can't we all get along?"
Could I make an appeal to all my fellow humans across the globe (and particularly my fellow Americans):
Might it be possible for each of us to not see anyone with whom we disagree as an enemy? Of being worthy of dismissal as stupid and even of our hate as evil?
I find this certainty that "we're in the right" to be a quite dangerous trend. People are losing their jobs not just for disagreeing, but simply for adding a caveat or codicil to the present dogma. It is happening across the country. And, I imagine, in others.
This is how totalitarianism starts, by projecting evil onto anyone with whom we disagree. Because as evil or idiotic they merit suppression, exclusion, censorship.
In the words of Rodney King, "Can't we all get along?"
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