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An inspiration. The best way to challenge insanity is to simply ignore it and move forward without consideration. You can't debate apartheid because it's farci
by throwaway55421 5y ago
An inspiration. The best way to challenge insanity is to simply ignore it and move forward without consideration.
You can't debate apartheid because it's farcical to begin with. The terminology even - exemption - makes our brains feel fuzzy, confused. What is this "exemption"? I'll just do my thing, thanks.
We could all learn something from this.
- api 5y ago“You can’t reason someone out of an opinion they didn’t reason themselves into.”
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoOr in the words of Desmond Tutu: "There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep."
- wolverine876 5y ago> The best way to challenge insanity is to simply ignore it and move forward without consideration. That's a tactic to be used in specific circumstances, such as by the Archbishop in a specific, peaceful neighborhood. It's for people who are safe. For a vulnerable person, it can be very dangerous: violating norms can end in being arrested or lynched - that's what lynchings and oppression are. That is the problem. Civil rights tactics such as lunch-counter sit-ins worked because they were carefully strategized and organized, and many people still got hurt and killed. For example, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=civil+rights+birmingham+fire+hoses%2C+etc&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos https://duckduckgo.com/?q=civil+rights+birmingham+fire+hoses...