A Quick Rant About Racism

If a meaningful amount of your Facebook updates are about racism, do you ever think maybe you're the racist?

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Whatever you give energy to tends to grow, and maybe on some level of consciousness or another these people actually want there to be tension between different races. They feel a cheap sense of righteousness when they can compare themselves to these other plebes who are supposedly racist.

I'm not criticizing people for sharing whatever experiences they have that are racist or that they speculate might be racist. Please, share your experiences. But that's never really what happens. It's more that they want to advance the general idea that there's this attitude of racism floating around.

And it just seems so toxic and counterproductive. Even if people agreed with you, "ok, I see, the world is so very racist" ... what exactly would change? The people who have racist feelings don't suddenly get better. You eradicate racism when you love and connect and play unconditionally, when, frankly, you don't go out of your way to break people into groups based on their race.

I feel worst for their beautiful children, who are entering a world that's probably never been better, and you want to feed them the idea that there's this division? Why?

It's especially gross to me when you consider that there are actual injustices going on.

Sure marijuana is gradually becoming legal, but there are still millions of Americans (still almost a full 1% of the population) who are locked in a cage and have their lives flipped upside down because people don't like the drug they chose to use. Why not be passionate about that?

Why not be passionate about the millions of children killed by your leader's orders to drop bombs on them?

The people locked in a cage are disproportionately black, and the murdered children are mostly Muslim.

But to this new breed of "activist", what's most important is the tone they interpret in a Donald Trump tweet.

Trump is right that the election was rigged. It was rigged in his favor, to misdirect social justice energy away from things that matter and down a dead-end of useless finger pointing amongst each other.