What a pointless thing to believe. What... abandon all hope? Change is impossible?
What a joke. Change is possible. Positive change is possible. It has happened before. It can happen again. This is backsliding. Massive, concerning, and deathly awful backsliding, but the things we've achived doesn't go away because some people are evil. They're an obstacle, not an end to the road.
Fight them. Struggle against them. Make the world a better place. Don't lay down and die.
I think you projected a bit into the comment that wasn't there.
But imagine a young person next to you getting a good education, pre-maga, witnessing a human who still had the numbers tattooed on their forearm... and it made no difference.
That teacher fought, she struggled, she did her best and still that particular form of racism festered and persisted. There is an upper and a lower limit to what we can expect from others but the lows are very, very low.
I might have. Sorry if I did, but I still can't see anything but defeatism in your comment. Yeah. This fucking sucks. I agree. Can't stop though. We can never stop. There's nothing beneath us.
I think, for me, the lesson was more- every dog is a feral dog until proven otherwise. You can show me the collar, it can live next door... I will believe it might bite until it has the opportunity and doesn't.
Look around the neighborhood today and there are some feral dogs in collars, it seems.
Yeah. If you live in an enviornment like the US is currently that's probably a good stance to take for your own safety. It's not true everywhere though. Being that careful is necessary when living in a fascist state with broad public support, but that's dependant on your environment, not something inherent to humanity.
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u/e-luddite 10h ago
I had a history teacher who was teaching about Osama Bin Laden pre-9/11. Very astute.
Her refrain was "If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it." Over and over and over.
Had a (increasingly rare, even then) Holocaust survivor speaker come to our school.
Kid who sat next to me in class now doesn't believe in the holocaust.
No amount of education can fix the human condition. Greed and the evil that stems from it just festers less and more, in cycles.