The World Motivation
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.
“Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.”
— Robin DiAngelo · Beings
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.