RE: My theory on all this recent Xenophobia
June 8, 2017 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2017 at 11:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
IKR, it's almost as if we instinctively impose and reenforce xenophobia, through means as subtle and innocent as telling our kids not to talk to strangers. That's probably why xenophobia is such a pernicious issue..or at least part of it.
I think that we do, at least on some level..we at least have to be open to the possibility that any given muslim before us was a card carrying member to feel that suspicion in the first place. If we fully understood and incorporated the knowledge that the tiniest fraction of that population were card carrying members...we would not be afraid, in the general, of that larger non terrorist population. Our fears would be focused and specific and clear. I think that we're capable of that..in fact, I think that many of us are, now, in that state.
No one likes a terrorist, right about now.
I harbor no specific or general suspicions about a muslim face, from a muslim place. I'll grant that I've had more interaction (than some) with muslim faces from those muslim places than others..and that may have helped to dispel whatever instinctive or latent suspicion that might have existed in me......but....I'd trample on a terrorists human rights, and then piss on his children while they cry real tears. I;d feel bad about it later, maybe...but I'd still do it.
Focus.
I think that we do, at least on some level..we at least have to be open to the possibility that any given muslim before us was a card carrying member to feel that suspicion in the first place. If we fully understood and incorporated the knowledge that the tiniest fraction of that population were card carrying members...we would not be afraid, in the general, of that larger non terrorist population. Our fears would be focused and specific and clear. I think that we're capable of that..in fact, I think that many of us are, now, in that state.
No one likes a terrorist, right about now.
I harbor no specific or general suspicions about a muslim face, from a muslim place. I'll grant that I've had more interaction (than some) with muslim faces from those muslim places than others..and that may have helped to dispel whatever instinctive or latent suspicion that might have existed in me......but....I'd trample on a terrorists human rights, and then piss on his children while they cry real tears. I;d feel bad about it later, maybe...but I'd still do it.
Focus.
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