Condescension

60412770_10157310595869846_5216975282711298048_nThe T-shirt here made me smile.

Without a doubt, we self-appointed educators and social critics run the risk of being viewed as condescending. When I write a post explaining the most basic laws of physics, or pointing out that more guns is not a reasonable solution to gun violence, or that the planet is not impervious to the activities of the human beings who live on its surface, or that Nazis are bad, or that people should show compassion to one another, I realize that some readers are thinking, “Oh come on, Craig.  Do you think people are really that stupid?”

Well, there is a reason that the mass slaughter of our school children goes unchecked, no matter how frequent the shootings and how many kids are lost.  There is a reason for our apathetic response to climate change, for the rise in terrorist acts committed by white people against Muslims and people of color, and for our indifference to atrocities happening all around us.  And, sorry to say, that reason isn’t exactly complimentary.

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  1. marcopolo says:

    Craig,

    “for the rise in terrorist acts committed by white people against Muslims and people of color”.

    What on earth is the matter with you? This endless self=loathing and castigation of “white people” is a form of inverse racism.

    Are you so bound up in invented ‘White guilt’ you have become incapable of realizing you are perpetrating racism?

    Does it really matter if the murderer is black, brown, red green or White? Isn’t he/she/them just a murderous fanatic, no matter the colour of skin or religion? Must everything be categorized by epidermal hue ?

    Oh how sanctimonious you must feel at the thought of once again indulging in self-loathing.

    Hmmm,.. but wait a minute, come to think about it, you don’t actually categorize yourself as that sort of “White” do you ?

    Nope, you are one of those self-righteous, apologizing, self-loathing members of Anglo-Saxon extraction, desperately over compensating for the imagined past misdeeds you exclusively attribute ancestors, for whom you feel you must personally atone.

    Wickedness, depravity, sin and depravity all about you! The you are an island of purity and righteousness in this modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.