I was joking about the re-education camps. I find it at once amusing and deplorable how easily one can single out a few incidents and then demonize 5 million people and that’s okay but if you apply the exact same scrutiny to Israel then you are a racist bigot.
Of course the people doing it always say that the facts make the distinction but to me it’s just hatred and bigotry.
I am dismayed because we are all human but we don’t all act like it. We should be finding ways to like each other but many people have no interest in exploring such avenues. Instead they prefer to make lists that show how much worse or better people are by blood. It’s really sickening and so is this article.
You are always going to see problems when you look at the world through a very narrow lens by which you define yourself and the world. Take something as innocuous as a major league baseball player who lives, eats and sleeps baseball all year long. A major league baseball player doesn’t have a balanced view of the world but a rather peculiar one.
This is not important because people know this and it’s just baseball. But when you apply this to an arena where people are unaware of this distinction because they are living a cultural life style they think of as having no particularly peculiar views then projecting onto the world the specific obsessions of that culture and life style are a big, big problem.
Projecting onto others normal human traits we all have is one thing, but making ethnic lists of Nobel winners or criminals and then saying people are superior or not superior smacks of Nazi notions of superiority.
