The Searcher Who Wants to Give

Mustafa Abu Aaliyah

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    Prominence versus dominance

    Strange, how it is regarded with contempt the thought that black people as a social group can cultivate a culture that can be problematic. Yet, the thought is held in no disregard that white people as a social group – not only can, but does – cultivate a culture of racism and oppression. To say…

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    The nuances of cancellation

    Someone once told me in defense of cancel culture “oh, but wouldn’t someone get canceled for doing the Hitler sign?”. That is not the same thing. There’s a difference between having a small set of things that one can get canceled for, and making it the norm of practically everything. Also, there are many ways…

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    Hold my hand

    People get called various personal attacks by one end of the political spectrum when they are, for example, being a certain skin color and not caring about or agreeing with certain issues related to that skin color. Or for being part of one group and caring about another. But isn’t caring about and acknowledging the…

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    The taste of terms

    I believe that a big part of the popularization of concepts and ideas comes from the way the names of their terms taste to express morphologically, rather than those concepts and ideas actually have any value. It’s so verbally pleasing and easy to say terms such as “passive aggressive”, “Islamophobia”, “right/left wing” (these are just…

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    The haste of terms

    It is very prevalent in today’s society and culture that simply because you come up with a word or term for something, along with a definition that has a sensitive or troublesome word in it, that entire concept, term and understanding becomes valid in an of itself. This is a great mistake I believe. Simply…

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