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One thing I learned after 10 years of being vegetarian: antagonism is a a loosing strategy. Shaming and tribalism doesn't help anybody, and is an arrogant view
by BiteCode_dev 6y ago
One thing I learned after 10 years of being vegetarian: antagonism is a a loosing strategy.
Shaming and tribalism doesn't help anybody, and is an arrogant view of the world.
You are probably some *ist right now, compared to a future world view.
Just because people have an opinion you know is unwise doesn't make them a bad person. They are like you. You are more like them than you think, but like them you have blind spots that prevent you from seeing it. Tolerance goes both way.
We all create suffering, at different scales and in different manners.
The idea is not to cater to racists, but just to make sure their believes does not translate to hurtful actions in the work place. If it doesn't, then it's ok, they probably tolerate stupid things on your part too.
If it does, then first, try to engage with them to make it stop.
Only if it doesn't work, should you reject them.
- speeder 6y agoWhen I was a teenager, I had a classmate that would often point out I was eating corpses and it was gross whenever I was eating a ham sandwich. A friend of his, liked also to point out I believed in fantasies, myths and magic, because I wasn't an atheist. One day the pair grabbed a holy book from my closed backpack (yep, they opened it without permission), and started playing soccer with it, while saying the book was useless for anything other than being kicked. Let's say that wasn't an winning strategy, I am still not vegetarian and still not an atheist, all they did was convince me that they are assholes.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoSomewhere down the road, people that were against religious extremism took the worst example from it, like dogmatic thinking, blind faith and intolerance, and decided it was ok to use it against religious people. Humanity and irony have a strong bond.