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Are You Sure You’re Not Racist?
Where do we draw the line? At actions, words, or thoughts?
We the people(s) gave Nazis a green light once.
Hatred escalated and scarred us deeply.
Let it remain in history as a shameful exception.
Have you never discriminated?
The side of racism that we can see is the one built with actions and words. An image of brutality and utter disdain. At times swept under the rug or, on the contrary, displayed proudly as a core belief. By people like you and me. But actions and words are so easy to control…
It’s not that hard to act in a non-racist manner, really. It’s not that hard to refrain from saying hurtful things based on skin color, ethnicity, gender, or sexual preference. Because racism isn’t the only plague. All discrimination is, even a positive one. Two wrongs don’t make a right, although we might find positive discrimination useful as a counterbalance in this early attempt to correct the negative one.
Do we not have a mechanism to pause our train of thought before voicing it? A speed bump for thoughts is the first thing we need. Because the main culprit, the invisible executioner, the root of all suffering lies in our thoughts…
