Scribble #146

You can never be *too* openminded. You can never have *too* much empathy. These are yet more tricks that right-wing tools/pundits/fearmongers use to limit us, trap us, and spread ignorance, intolerance and hatred for our fellow humans, who are all different. It is illogical and nonsensical to baselessly hate another person just because they are different from you. Hate has limits, and oppresses, whilst love, kindness, and caring for others have no limits, and they empower and free us. Empathy is as important to living a healthy life in a society and community-fuelled world as self-care is.

Another right-wing lie: Equal rights for others means less rights for me--I mean, you. *cough*

No, sharing privilege and expanding human rights does not work like that. It does not, it should not, lessen anyone else's right to exist. As someone else once said, it is not pie.

It is basic human decency. 

Eradicating all class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnic, religious, and disability discrimination, and abolishing all power imbalances, would not lead to chaos. It is a step closer to world peace and happiness. Capitalism is the problem, not the solution. It will always be a problem unless we actually analyse the harm it's doing to the world, and do something about it.

"Rich" and "poor" are not natural, normal, healthy, ethical and practical rules of life to live and survive by.

And what is "woke", anyway? As in, awake? Aware? Knowing? Only the desperate, brainwashed and hate-filled right-wing people would turn something as basic and essential to living as being conscious into an insult. The opposite of "woke" is literally, "Keep being ignorant, keep being in the dark, keep being boxed, keep sleeping, because you woke up, you lit up, and it bothers me for some reason.". It's the new "social justice warrior" - equally overused, tired and childish, and equally not an insult to decent people.

Open-mindedness and gullibility are not the same thing. Open-mindedness means breaking down societal and cultural barriers and limitations, and freeing ourselves and others from past prejudices and falsehoods, and loving each other for who we are; loving how different each of us are. It means listening to the truth. It is meant to empower all of us. Gullibility, from the perpetrator's end, means telling lies that do limit us. Lies that regress us. Silence us. Lies that gradually reduce progress, and therefore disempower us, disenfranchise us, as human beings that exist. Con artists rely on gullibility in order to take advantage of us and harm us, and it works, due to already existing biases, naivety, lack of education, and fear of what the general populace doesn't understand. The depressing reality is that conmen of every kind don't even have to be particularly skilled at what they do. They can be as ignorant, ruthless, cruel and unpleasant as they want other people to be, to again, take advantage of them. They are bullies, and we are their victims, whether we realise it or not. The purpose of lying to a gullible mob mentality is to disadvantage and disenfranchise us in order to enrich the life of the successful liar(s) at the expanse of others below them in the hierarchy. It is capitalism - and current politics - in its simplest art.