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Colonization versus Conquests
I once asked an AI chatbot why, when it is about Europeans who seized new lands, it’s called “colonization”, but when others did the same – for example Arabs and Muslims – it is called “conquests”. The first term is very condemning while the second is much more forgiving. It basically answered something like “the…
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Diversity of thought
A person voiced that “this generation is all about diversity, except diversity of thought”. This is such an important statement. No diversity matters if there is no diversity of thought, because it’s by thought that we perceive, discern, categorize and come to an understanding of them and anything else. Allowing the very existence of that…
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Pure rain
Can you imagine calling someone a racist for dancing in the rain and sharing the instance? This is what is happening in today’s discussions. Take care, and stay far away from anything that seeks to diminish and extinguish your light. Don’t let it get to you. Your worth is above it. Whoever you are.
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Night and day
Cancel culture doesn’t seem to be able to grasp perhaps one of the most infant forms of perceiving truth; that two things (or more) can be true and of importance at the same time.
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Seek to build, not disrupt
There is something I notice in today’s discourse. The race-based mistreatment white people endure today is – in some ways – worse than what other people have endured in history. (I’m not talking about extreme and specific things now that has happened to other people, but in a general sense.) This is because when for…
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Justice, always
As a general principle, I believe that people’s value lies in relation to themselves and not in relation to others. As such, I find great mistrust in the presupposition that because a person has suffered great injustice, the injustice that someone else has suffered becomes insignificant in relation to it because it is smaller. Injustice…
The Searcher Who Wants to Give 