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Maeve@kbin.earth 17 hours agoSo to answer your question: no, it's not worse. It's a desperate attempt to make something start tipping the scale back toward liberty and peace.
I doubt that means much to people out of eyesight and earshot to whom we've never allowed to have the same liberty and peace.
felbane@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Sure, and to be clear I mean a liberty and peace that includes everyone that has historically been marginalized and abused by this nation’s governments and by people who think they’re superior to everyone else.
The problem with a melting pot (particularly one that was started by murdering and stealing land from a continent’s worth of indigenous people) is that it puts bigots right next to the people they hate.
The benefit of a melting pot is that if the incoming generation can avoid being programmed into hatred by their parents, society trends toward true equality and equity.
I’m trying to maintain optimism that this current extreme escalation is the flailing death throes of a generation raised into bigotry and self-aggrandization, and that we’ll come out the other side of this being a better society (the younger generations today are so much more openly altruistic and progressive on the whole).
Maeve@kbin.earth 16 hours ago
Well, I don't fault you for any of it. This part will require vigorously investigating, rooting out our liberal narrative, and reeducating ourselves.