The redefinition of the word ‘racist’ freaks me out. We went through centuries of rationalizing it any way we could to finally figure out that ‘discrimination based on race’ was a horrible thing regardless of justification. But redefinition is just another justification! 1/
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I know this well myself. I was raised evangelical Christian and went around calling gay people fags. I know what it’s like to believe a terrible thing - and from the inside, it feels like exactly the way you feel right now. It’s comfortable, justified, it makes the most sense.
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You should be just as wary and skeptical of yourself as you are of other people. You *are* other people.
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Goddamn you said something very smart just now
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People think they could’ve been Schindler, but they could’ve been more likely camp guards.
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a lot of ideologies are created and evolved *specifically* to rationalize evil, and create certainty that evil can not be perpetrated inside the framework of that ideology
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All evil is born of attempts to do good.
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Certainly seems that way much of the time.
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this is an important key point. - it's never "the others". The problem lies in all of us, in our nature - human nature.
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