In his work I and Thou,8 brilliant European thinker Martin Buber speaks of how we can see a person as simply a material object, something you look at, an “it,” or we can look into a person and enter the sacredness of their humanity so that they become a “Thou.” (And as a Jewish philosopher who immigrated to Palestine to advocate for Arab-Jewish cooperation, Buber knew all too well how easily we objectify and demonize others.) All the time, we look at people—hot girls, beggars, pop stars, white folks, black folks, people with suits or dreadlocks. But over time, we can develop new eyes and look
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