I know it is bad to be intolerant of other people's views if they clash with our own but I will say this: if a view is based on dehumanising others, if it promotes selfishness and allows racism and bigotry to prevail then I do not believe it is bad to oppose it.
I would go a step further and say it is probably better to oppose it than to slip into the shadows lest our silence becomes complicit with all we find so abhorrent.
~It is not true that if we disagree with something that is inherently twisted that our are disapproval is on a par with intolerance.
~I believe that any type of persecution should find empathy in those who believe that persecution is inherently wrong. In all walks of life it is the primary attacker who must be confronted and seriously addressed, not the innocent and persecuted.
~The new order appears to disregard this and charge full-steam ahead .. pushing all morality and even humanity off a precipice into an abyss. Persecution and bullying appear to be the main course and some are making a meal of it.
Sadly, people's lives hang in the balance while our feelings of helplessness become more and more tangible. Our frustration escalates and all we appear to have is the need to vent over and over again.
If only the pen were indeed mightier than the sword..
If only.
Shaken by what we see, people, who through no fault of their own, are figuratively and literally flung about with no place to call their home; all the result of power games and greed ... we are traumatised to witness too many who lead such comfortable lives blame these very people rather than offer a helping hand or at the very least some basic understanding.
I find it impossible to be so bereft of compassion.. I find it inhuman.
I would go a step further and say it is probably better to oppose it than to slip into the shadows lest our silence becomes complicit with all we find so abhorrent.
~It is not true that if we disagree with something that is inherently twisted that our are disapproval is on a par with intolerance.
~I believe that any type of persecution should find empathy in those who believe that persecution is inherently wrong. In all walks of life it is the primary attacker who must be confronted and seriously addressed, not the innocent and persecuted.
~The new order appears to disregard this and charge full-steam ahead .. pushing all morality and even humanity off a precipice into an abyss. Persecution and bullying appear to be the main course and some are making a meal of it.
Sadly, people's lives hang in the balance while our feelings of helplessness become more and more tangible. Our frustration escalates and all we appear to have is the need to vent over and over again.
If only the pen were indeed mightier than the sword..
If only.
Shaken by what we see, people, who through no fault of their own, are figuratively and literally flung about with no place to call their home; all the result of power games and greed ... we are traumatised to witness too many who lead such comfortable lives blame these very people rather than offer a helping hand or at the very least some basic understanding.
I find it impossible to be so bereft of compassion.. I find it inhuman.
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