Will the Future View of Racism Be Like Mine Now?
To be honest, I think some people will come to view it similarly. Because the future often shapes views where the past, all-too-seriously-taken issues become laughable.
“They actually thought that way? Ha!”
Now, how do I see racism?
A false cause (in the philosophical/logical sense), a pathetic tool for those in power to further congregate the masses, an idiotic invention akin in its damage to the world as certain religions. A logical fallacy, racism is purely based on human perception, composed by bigots who had too much money and had no idea what to do with it (where I’m going with this is: they turned those who were superficially different into slaves. The moronity behind this makes me want to facepalm so hard). Nothing backed by science, nothing that sincerely exists, and yet somehow is still able, to this day, to permeate through the visions of humanity and turn them into even more closed-minded, ignorant, mediocre fools. I do not commend racism in any of its forms, just as I do not participate in the public and shared activity of perpetual discrimination against all kinds of people.
Humanity seems to have degraded, devolved into sub-worlds that are completely separated from any form of unity that is essentially what our species is based on and made out of. This unity I’m speaking of is the fact that all humans are the same, because if they were not, they would not be able to successfully mate together. (By successfully, I mean simply produce a baby. Mutations are irrelevant occurrences that are simply a product of evolution, heredity and the way reproduction works.)
My point is, you cannot make babies with an elephant, although we share a specific amount of our genetics with… Everything that is currently alive and has lived at one point in time. (Even with plants. Feel connected to the universe yet?)
And you’re going about separating humans based on simple physical appearances? Do you realise how stupid that is? Do you have to go into anatomy classes just to see how similar our insides look like? C’mon, mate.
Racism isn’t the only problem we face, and which I believe must be annihilated from the shared consciousness of the population. Discrimination of all kinds runs rampant amongst us, and it creates barriers in our minds that disable us from being able to really understand the other party, to really perceive them for what they are, instead of what we make them out to be.
I’m talking about basing someone’s personality on your fucked up, pre-conceived notions of some other person or an entire stereotype. You might think that disliking someone for their interest in something you don’t understand not as discrimination (calling them out on it and hating them for having bloody interests you never thought of picking up), but, as long as you are in the process of judging others negatively, in a way that constricts you from studying them to see who they are, you are, in fact, discriminating.
And this needs to stop.
It prevents us from truly being able to see the world with an open mind. Building up reason upon reason as to why you refuse to associate with a certain group of individuals, such as a whole nation (which is honestly just as stupid as racism and sexism–one should not prefer any type of judgemental thinking over another), a certain sub-culture or even those who come from a specific background, not only hinders you from being able to explore worlds you never thought existed, but also means you think generalisations about people are justified. No one is the same as anyone else; we’re all different individuals, we’re not copies of each other, even if we try to be. In that sense, we are different, and that is what makes people interesting, and what makes life amazing.
In the fundamental sense? Yes, we’re all the same, carbon-based species known as Homo sapiens. We breathe O2 and expel CO2. We don’t breathe CO2 and expel O2, therefore we are not plants. There’s no section of the populace that is a plant. So your attempts at separating people who look slightly different from you is fallacious.
What I’m trying to say is, let go of all your hostile judgement towards others (and yourself). Open up your mind to new possibilities. Don’t judge, observe. The entire world becomes a completely different place once you do that.
I laugh at racist idiots, but I also laugh at people who subjugate themselves and others to the treatment of ‘generalisations’. Because my perspective on life is to laugh at stupidity and ignorance and mediocrity, for if I did not, I would only be immensely outraged, and I’ve tried that, and it did me no good.
So yes. I laugh at incompetence and idiocy. You should, too. It doesn’t make you any less of a brilliant person.
It just means you have an awesomely twisted sense of humour, and you know that life is way too damn short for you to be so bleeding angry all the bleeding time.
Thank you for reading my post, and I hope at least some of you understand my perspective.
If you’ve learned something from reading this, please, click recommend, voice your thoughts in responses and even share it with others, so more people would see this. You have no idea how badly I’d like for the world to look at these issues in this lighthearted and simple way.
Extra notes: as long as people keep fighting for racism–yes, for–it will persist. How about, instead of clinging onto the past mistakes of humanity, you remedy the damages? How about, instead of saying ‘black lives matter’, you say ‘human lives matter’? How about, instead of ‘black pride’ being a thing, we only feel proud to be what we are? Of course, it’s hard to be proud now, but why can’t there be a day when people are actually proud to be a part of this species?
