Avoiding the truth to avoid responsibility is an exercise in hypocrisy.
Supporting oppression to avoid the loss of privilege is an exercise in hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy harms the hypocrite more than it ever harms others.
The ones who experience such hypocrisy can still act against it, and can champion a cause to resist it.
The hypocrite, however, loses their soul and every ounce of their humanity when they stubbornly persist in their hypocrisy.
Not only does this deny them fulfilment or peace, it also destroys everything of value that makes their lives worth living, or their struggles worth enduring.
Thus the bitter are the most hypocritical, and the most hypocritical at the most oppressive among us.
Rationalising their hypocrisy to convince them otherwise is a futile exercise.
Instead, we must reject their assertions that are blatantly erroneous or contemptable, so that we don’t exhaust ourselves in their deliberate attempts at distraction from the truth, while the cause of justice suffers from our lack of focus.
It only gets complicated when we are unwilling to take a stand for what is uncomfortable or for what threatens the comfort of our existence.
Tyranny prevails when the masses value their so-called quality of life over their dignity and their humanity.
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