Tag: palestine

  • Hypocrisy destroys you

    Hypocrisy destroys you

    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.

    #watermelon

  • Don’t outsource your dignity

    Don’t outsource your dignity

    Dignity is the ultimate social currency.

    With dignity comes accountability and self awareness.

    Or perhaps dignity is only possible through self awareness and accountability.

    But accountability is an outcome of self respect and integrity which in turn demands that we care more about who we are and what we stand for than what we want others to think of us.

    That’s when it gets complicated.

    It gets complicated when we focus on what we are likely to lose from others if we take a stand about what we believe to be important.

    But that complication is not because the issue is complicated.

    It’s because we complicate our lives by contaminating it with what we want others to see in us instead of being true to our values and principles regardless of what they think.

    Dignity demands that we be open to correction because of the shame we feel when we are dishonest.

    It demands that we protect the dignity of others because we must not be able to live with ourselves if we willingly and consciously look away when another is treated poorly.

    What we would want from others in our time of need or vulnerability is what we must offer.

    If not, we sow seeds of hypocrisy in our hearts which eventually contaminate the entirety of our being because dignity is lost and validation from others becomes the only peace we will know.

    Your dignity is yours to claim.

    Don’t outsource it in exchange for popularity or personal gain.

  • I was in history class today and we were talking about the Middle East and North Africa…

    Teacher: So North Africa and the Middle East are going through some difficult times right now. Who knows what.
    Some idiot hobo child: ISRAEL IS TAKING OVER!!!! WOOOHHOOOO!!!
    Teacher: Hahaha! Yes!!! But what else!?
    At this point I had no respect for her so I didn’t raise my hand-
    Me: Excuse me? Why are you rejoicing?
    Teacher: Dear, Israel is a very powerful state. And, when America needs them, they will be there?
    Me: They’ll be there? They aren’t here right now. America is going through the worst economic crisis it has seen since the Great Depression. Where’s Israel? Oh wait, they’re in Palestine, slaughtering innocent people. They aren’t helping anyone. And they never will. The Israeli government will never be there to help you, me, America, your family or anyone else. And next time you start celebrating Israel, just remember that YOU are celebrating the MASSACRES of people who didn’t even do a single thing wrong. Newborn babies, dead. Elderly people walking to the store, dead. Women working in the fields, dead. While YOU are sitting there celebrating their deaths while I, their families, and millions of other sane people mourn for them.
    Teacher: *silent*
    And the class remained silent, just staring at me for 10 minutes. And, I was called into the principals office…

  • Simple truth about Palestine…

    (Source: http://www.gregfelton.com/satire/2009_01_24.htm)