I hear you and it's why I reference King and the wisdom of non-violence. However, the world we live in is full of petty violence and it bothers me when on a micro level a bully race uses their power to denigrate another and we only expect the people offended to be pacifist. Don't we wish that more Germans stood up to the Nazi's, more peo…
I hear you and it's why I reference King and the wisdom of non-violence. However, the world we live in is full of petty violence and it bothers me when on a micro level a bully race uses their power to denigrate another and we only expect the people offended to be pacifist. Don't we wish that more Germans stood up to the Nazi's, more people in power standing up to Putin, more white dudes confronting other white dudes if they are being jerks? Standing up need not mean physical violence, but sometimes it means physical approaches. I'm horrified by the rise of political violence in our country, and don't condone it in the public sphere either. It's somewhat a rage against the machine for me, and the machine is the expectation that bad people should be ignored or treated gently and the oppressed must be meek. What Fardaws did was an expression of real disgust and calling him out, person to person, and I just think it's a shame that he had to do that, and there were not instead three of the random white people around him to got in his face and just said some truth like "Shut the hell up and keep that sick shit to yourself". So that Fardaws didn't feel the need to defend himself...because he was being defended by the community at large.
I hear you and it's why I reference King and the wisdom of non-violence. However, the world we live in is full of petty violence and it bothers me when on a micro level a bully race uses their power to denigrate another and we only expect the people offended to be pacifist. Don't we wish that more Germans stood up to the Nazi's, more people in power standing up to Putin, more white dudes confronting other white dudes if they are being jerks? Standing up need not mean physical violence, but sometimes it means physical approaches. I'm horrified by the rise of political violence in our country, and don't condone it in the public sphere either. It's somewhat a rage against the machine for me, and the machine is the expectation that bad people should be ignored or treated gently and the oppressed must be meek. What Fardaws did was an expression of real disgust and calling him out, person to person, and I just think it's a shame that he had to do that, and there were not instead three of the random white people around him to got in his face and just said some truth like "Shut the hell up and keep that sick shit to yourself". So that Fardaws didn't feel the need to defend himself...because he was being defended by the community at large.