• I don’t believe in choosing between a lesser of two evils. If we actually want to fix our problems instead of putting on a bandaid, we need to choose good. It’s not about winning or losing; it’s about working together to bring good back into the world.
• I remember protests happening in the middle east and south America not too long ago. Do we know what’s happened with them? I don’t want to get distracted by my country’s own injustice and completely forget about the rest of the world. It feels like countries are just taking turns creating worldwide outrage to take the heat off of each other.
• I think philosophers exist in order to incite action into those who don’t know how to think properly. I can’t act alone to save the world, but I can convince the world to save itself.
• I think it can be good to look up to some athletes/celebrities, but celebrities need to stay in their lane of expertise, and not use their fame to act as a talking head for something they have no experience or comprehension of. There are some great celebrity activists, but you can really tell when they do it for their passion of justice, rather than for popularity or a paycheck.
• That’s one way to look at it, but I guess similarly to my thoughts, it’s only conjecture. I can’t know for certain what his intentions but I refuse to accept any support, no matter the reason, for injustice. I can’t condemn someone for looking out for themself, their family, or their livelihood, but when you make a statement directly opposing human dignity, them I lose all respect.
• Our morals and ideals have been so corrupted by accepting “not as bad” candidates. I’m not willing to accept “better” policies and actions. Only good from now on. If no one is willing to be good, then I’m going to fight until good is the only option. I don’t think that will ever be the case in our world, but at least it gives me a lifelong and fulfilling goal to work towards.
• Right now, the debate seems to ve focused on “peaceful protesting vs violent protesting”. I don’t think that should be the conversation. Protesting, no matter its form, only occurs when the government and society fails its people. If our social structures were foundationally stable, protesting wouldn’t occur.
• I’m very much against violent protesting. But if I had to choose between violent protesting or no protesting, I’d choose violent. Not because I think people certain people deserve pain and suffering, but rather we need change, and unfortunately the sociopaths in Washington don’t care about our feelings, but rather their money and power. Discord affects their money, so discord feels like it’s the only way to reach them.
• If we want to change the system, we need to change the power of the system. Power attracts too many cruel people.
•It’s not that the issue is racism, but that social structures allow and promote hate towards specific groups and demographics. We all have hate in us, but our society has decided blacks/gays/women are ok to look down on and discriminate. The best way to address discrimination is to address the hate in us, and the social structures that take advantage of that hate to divide us.
•We have failed ourselves by letting the system fail us
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