Absolutely. And perhaps you're right that organisation is what love looks like to activism. It's a beautiful idea. In my own frustration with disorganization maybe it's difficult to feel it but work towards it all the same. Thank you.
If I see a crazy, hateful, fearful, murderous person in the street, I can love him, and I should, and I can understand him, and I should try, but I am NOT going to hand him a gun. This is the problem. It's not that there are some crazy people - there are crazy people in lots of places and always have been - it's that we're arming them. This is what has to stop, as difficult as that seems to be. We need the entire world to cooperate on this project.
Exactly. We can't keep "cooperating" to bring arms to the crazy people in the world, the z-people being the one of the major crazy peoples at the moment. But we should never forget that bringing them to the ICC and ICJ to receive justice for their crimes is one way to teach them what it's like to be human.
I really appreciate this article, thank you. I was immersed in the activism side of things until February 2024 this year. It was the betrayal, identity politics, individualism, insincerity and 'shaming' tactics of other self-proclaimed activists that destroyed my resolve. As well as witnessing cruelty towards Palestinian public figures, placed on a pedestal by liberals only to be thrown off again just as fast when they aren't perceived to be perfect enough in the midst of the massacring of their family and friends.
Turning against each other instead of honestly accepting failure and then reviewing our tactics has been our downfall. I have since been trying to come to terms with this specific cause of ineffectually, burnout, isolation, censorship and frustration.
Throughout my years as an activist, I can guarantee that it is always other activists that have defeated me, never a shared adversary. The same pattern again and again. The unspoken replication and perpetuation of power struggles within a movement, whilst claiming to oppose power structures (without class analysis) is forever the bane of hope and resistance.
I don't know if love is the answer but better organisation, definitely.
I'm sorry you've had these kinds of experiences. Activists give in to their frustrations sometimes and end up demonizing their fellow activists. We forget that we're all human, and we're all fallible and deserving of respect. Organization is what love looks like to activism, I'd say.
Ultimately, yes, we should lead by example and by using the concept of love as one of our core principles.
And in many cases (though not all), understanding the other side and what drives them is also crucial as it makes us realize there are more things we have in common with them in terms of concerns and core objectives.
The problem is the zio-nazis are quite happy to kill or gradually imprison everyone they can get their hands on who dissents from their agenda. How far can love help dead or imprisoned people?
We can't help dead people--unless you can walk on water and raise them from the dead--but we can help the living by not continuing the hate and escalating the violence against them. "Eye for an eye" justice will only make both the Z people and the rest of us blind and filled with eternal rage. We must practice true justice based on love and on respecting the other's humanity. Otherwise, we become just as venal and narcissistic as they are. Two wrongs won't make a right. It will just bring us all to nuclear armageddon.
I'm just pointing out that when you oppose them, and throw love - you need to content with the fact that your opposition means they are actively looking to put you in prison. And are happy to receive all your love while you are there.
If you mean love them and aim to ensure THEY end up in prison themselves or it least the dock at the ICC and they receive your love there, I'm all for that.
To put it in perspective, zionists in the UK have taken a journalist like Richard Medhusrt who opposes genocide....and charged him with supporting "terrorism"...while they themselves keep sending weapons to Israel and running spy flights to guide Israel bombs on to the heads of Palestinian children.
I mean your second point. When we charge them with their war crimes and prosecute them we are "loving them" because they need to be treated as humans with rights (unlike how they treat others). That's the interpretation of what "Justice is what love looks like in public" means to me.
Nelson Mandela was a wise man. When the Boer government of South Africa came to him seeking a solution to the rising wave of unrest he told them he could've brought down the lightning on them, but chose the route to peace and reconciliation instead. Imagine the hell hole of violence and repression South Africa could have been without Mandela's wisdom. Maybe there's a chance for peace in the Middle East, maybe there isn't. We have to try.
An excellent example! The South African reconciliation panels have done more to bring about health and healing to that society than anything else. It's what MLK Jr. meant by "hate is too heavy a burden to bear." We must practice justice--"what love looks like in public"--and not allow ourselves to fall into the pit of eternal rage and hatred. Build up, not tear down, to bring about peace for everyone on the planet.
Like any other addict, the z people must first want to change. They have not arrived at that stage yet. I don't think we have to love them. I think we just have to not hate them. Accept that they are addicted to power and control, that they are afraid. They will change when they think it is to their advantage. Like most humans.
You are so right. You can't make someone change who doesn't want to change. I've tried to--and it doesn't work! And not hating and working for justice is "love." It doesn't have to be flowers and niceties. Convicting war criminals at the ICC is showing love as well to the world and to the perpetrators themselves. They need to learn responsibility and how to be human. If we love others, we must help them grow and learn what they need to learn.
While I can sympathize with your hope, I think you are being extremely naive about Zism. There is no difference between Zism and Nazism. In fact, the Zists throughout Europe ACTIVELY collaborated with the Nazis, sending millions off to die in the camps. Wealthy Zists ACTIVELY collaborated to send poor and rural Jews off to the camps in order to protect their wealth and privilege and get safe passage to other countries.
Your understanding of the founding of Israel is incomplete. The Zist move to conquer Palestine goes back decades before WW II and was so extreme, they lobbied the Nazis to send Jews to the camps instead of other European nations if they could not be sent to Palestine.
The Nazi government even provided some funding for conquering Palestine.
Jewish scholar Tony Greenstein has an excellent article on the Electronic Inifada on an important chapter of Z history: how the young man who escaped Auschwitz and tried to get word to Europe about what was going on in the death camp. The Zist blocked him, smeared him and silenced his warning. They knew what was going on in Auschwitz and ACTIVELY kept the information from Hungarian Jews who thought they were just being sent to labor camps.
Greenstein was raised in an Orthodox family and his father was a rabbi, I encourage you to read his book on Zism to understand what it is really about. It is a brutal form of ethnic and religious hatred and racism. (They even see you and your family as subhuman.) It is fascism of the worst kind. You aren't going to win over the hearts and minds of fascists. While you appeal to a heart that isn't there, innocents are slaughtered. Keep in mind, a majority of Israelis and their government support making the routine, systematic rape of all Palestinian prisoners -- men, women and children -- official policy.
You want to appeal to their better angels? There are none.
I strongly urge you to read Greenstein's book. I did a post which also has an extensive interview with him: "Jewish Scholar's Book Reveals Zionism's Fascist Roots & Close Collaborative Role With Nazi Regime" ... Learning American Zionist leaders had opposed the entry of Jewish refugees from Europe during World War II began a life-long exploration of Zionism's fascist roots.
History has shown over and over, the only thing you can do with fascists is fight them. The children of Gaza and the West Bank deserve our active, loud resistance and opposition. To do less and hope for a change of heart is to collaborate.
Ah, I see you missed the audience I was aiming for here--those who are working against Z-ism must love (not divide and conquer and harp on each other constantly over nonessential things) each other or else we won't be able to organize effectively and bring about peace in the world. Look at the examples of MLK Jr. and Gandhi and the movements they organized. They were founded on love not simply hating the oppressors. Hating and hating and hating and hating the horribly wounded humans in the world (who are doing terrible things) only makes them into "subhumans" in YOUR own mind. Once you've done that, you've essentially become just as racist/biased as the Z-ists. You think about and do nothing but hateful things. You get nowhere. That is what the MLK Jr. quote is about: "Hate is too great a burden to bear." Constantly hating won't make you see others as humans and you don't set a good example for them to learn from, either. If you start going with the "greater evil" argument, you will only spiral into more negative emotions.. "The Z-ists are worse than the Nazis..." so what will you say when the next group comes along that make the Z-ists look like doves? There can't ever be a NEXT TIME. Evil cannot win over evil. It just makes conditions for more evil in the world. The spiraling down has to be stopped. Organize for peace, not for more war, if you want to stop all wars/genocide.
Love among the those standing against Z/Nism? Makes total sense to overcome differences to align against evil. Seeing Z/Nism fascists for the brutal criminals they are? Oh, yeah. When confronted by evil, confront it from a place of love, but have no illusions about the evil you face or it will gobble you up. There are sociopaths and psychopaths like Z/Nists in the world and they are not changeable or redeemable. They simply need to be called out, confronted and defeated. Zism is one such mass psychopathology.
But we must never become susceptible to their pathology by trying to rationalize our own hatred and evil against them. We must keep walking the high road of justice and compassion. Even for those we see as unredeemable we must treat with dignity as we do ourselves. We must always be cognizant that they are humans just like we are--fallible and capable of great evil. Justice must be fair and swift but never lopsided, or else we will perpetuate the evil and possibly bring about an end to all of us in the next cycle.
Sociopaths and psychopaths are FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT. There is no humanity in such personalities. They are not redeemable. It would be like trying to change a raging hyena into a bunny rabbit. There is fundamental, irredeemable, unchangeable evil in the world. The challenge is to confront it and not lose one's own decency and honor in the process. Some will succeed and some will fail.
Please think about this: Your exact paragraph is precisely what Israelis are taught from early childhood to believe about Palestinians, sometimes even about all Gentiles. This is where their fear, and from that their hate, and their behavior, comes from. It's a mindset that's not the answer, it's the problem. They are human, and they are individuals. Some might not be saveable, and some might. But we have to see ourselves in the same light, and not fall into this blanket belief and its ensuing hatred.
There you finally got it--be careful you don't lose your own sense of decency and honor in the process. We should lock up the psychopaths, but we can't become one of them by copying their ways by not recognizing they are human beings. They are and so we need to be treating them justly. Justice should always be fair and swift but never lopsided. This is treating all individuals with love and keeping our own decency. "Justice is what love looks like in public," says Cornel West. Love yourself and love your neighbor. Act justly.
Now consider this is not a one-off or accidental incident. This is yet another act in a months long INTENTIONAL, strategic, systemic program of genocide ... and corporate profit making.
It happens over and over and over ... and over. And will continue on.
And of course, this infant has been attacked by us ... the US. With our tax money. WE are making it possible and are under the direct control and direction of the perpetrators. Those of us who properly oppose this are dragged along by the perverse psychopaths running this government and thus -- even in our opposition -- tainted with responsibility.
People who do this. Fund it. Arm it. Plot it over and over without a moment of hesitation or reflection are evil. Beyond evil. They are some perversion of human ... soulless.
Psychopaths and sociopaths.
Despite all the comforting stuff we like to tell ourselves of the justice brought to Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg trials, the truth is our government rescued many of the worst, put them in our Intel agencies, military, government. Hitler didn't survive the war, but he won it and in one of greatest perversions of history we, under the direction of the ZioNazis, are now doing a genocide just as bad ... and in many ways worse. We have become the evil.
Do I want justice brought down on them? Absolutely.
And I hope it is fierce justice.
I can feel that, support it and not lose my humanity. I can do it from a place of love ... for their victims. As to them? Fuck 'em. To do less would be to betray humanity. and that child gasping for breath in the rubble and a betrayal of justice.
I don't agree that love is the answer because love fades when it is one-sided.
I recognize that those who are committing genocide are humans, but I won't love them.
I recognize it because I want them to stand before a court and be judged for their acts.
Fear couldn't be a mitigating circumstance that excuses the most horrific acts human being could do. I said human beings because I believe humans are capable of the best and the worst.
You can ask me to advocate for justice because it is the right thing to exercice on everybody whatever our feeling toward them, but don’t ask me to love criminals.
Love is not sustainable when there is injustice, when there is sadism and hatred.
But when you give justice to ALL (this includes both the victims and the perpetrators) you are showing "love." I think a lot of folks have stumbled across the fact that English is a very limited language on this subject. We need to show "agape" toward all humans. This is the unconditional "love" that our shared creator has shown for us all by creating us. "Justice is what love looks like in public" to quote Dr. West. If you are truly for justice--enacted fairly and with integrity for all humans--then you are showing compassion/love to all.
How easy it is to just hate and harp on each other! If we want peace in our time we need to listen to MLK's instructions and focus on our shared humanity. Otherwise, we'll let the oligarchy nuke us all. Choose love not hate!
Yes! Harping and criticizing each other constantly in the peace movement only serves to delay the coming of peace. We must love each other as human or else we'll start treating our supposed comrades as subhuman. Then we've become no better than the foe we're fighting.
Thanks for this. I have always been a big believer that humans have more in common with each other than differences and that the vast majority want to love each other. I have lost this belief in recent months and you’ve reminded me of it. 🙏
You're welcome. I need to be reminded of this often too, or else I get into a very dark spiral of hating others and hating and hating and hating.... And hate is too great a burden to bear. We can't bring about peace and justice in the world if we can't first love ourselves and demonstrate that love to others. We must practice what we preach!
Absolutely. And perhaps you're right that organisation is what love looks like to activism. It's a beautiful idea. In my own frustration with disorganization maybe it's difficult to feel it but work towards it all the same. Thank you.
If I see a crazy, hateful, fearful, murderous person in the street, I can love him, and I should, and I can understand him, and I should try, but I am NOT going to hand him a gun. This is the problem. It's not that there are some crazy people - there are crazy people in lots of places and always have been - it's that we're arming them. This is what has to stop, as difficult as that seems to be. We need the entire world to cooperate on this project.
Exactly. We can't keep "cooperating" to bring arms to the crazy people in the world, the z-people being the one of the major crazy peoples at the moment. But we should never forget that bringing them to the ICC and ICJ to receive justice for their crimes is one way to teach them what it's like to be human.
I really appreciate this article, thank you. I was immersed in the activism side of things until February 2024 this year. It was the betrayal, identity politics, individualism, insincerity and 'shaming' tactics of other self-proclaimed activists that destroyed my resolve. As well as witnessing cruelty towards Palestinian public figures, placed on a pedestal by liberals only to be thrown off again just as fast when they aren't perceived to be perfect enough in the midst of the massacring of their family and friends.
Turning against each other instead of honestly accepting failure and then reviewing our tactics has been our downfall. I have since been trying to come to terms with this specific cause of ineffectually, burnout, isolation, censorship and frustration.
Throughout my years as an activist, I can guarantee that it is always other activists that have defeated me, never a shared adversary. The same pattern again and again. The unspoken replication and perpetuation of power struggles within a movement, whilst claiming to oppose power structures (without class analysis) is forever the bane of hope and resistance.
I don't know if love is the answer but better organisation, definitely.
I'm sorry you've had these kinds of experiences. Activists give in to their frustrations sometimes and end up demonizing their fellow activists. We forget that we're all human, and we're all fallible and deserving of respect. Organization is what love looks like to activism, I'd say.
I've experienced this also, for 56 years. It's people like you that keep me hanging in there as an activist.
Thank you so much for this solidarity.
Ultimately, yes, we should lead by example and by using the concept of love as one of our core principles.
And in many cases (though not all), understanding the other side and what drives them is also crucial as it makes us realize there are more things we have in common with them in terms of concerns and core objectives.
The problem is the zio-nazis are quite happy to kill or gradually imprison everyone they can get their hands on who dissents from their agenda. How far can love help dead or imprisoned people?
We can't help dead people--unless you can walk on water and raise them from the dead--but we can help the living by not continuing the hate and escalating the violence against them. "Eye for an eye" justice will only make both the Z people and the rest of us blind and filled with eternal rage. We must practice true justice based on love and on respecting the other's humanity. Otherwise, we become just as venal and narcissistic as they are. Two wrongs won't make a right. It will just bring us all to nuclear armageddon.
Oh, I'm not talking about an eye for an eye.
I'm just pointing out that when you oppose them, and throw love - you need to content with the fact that your opposition means they are actively looking to put you in prison. And are happy to receive all your love while you are there.
If you mean love them and aim to ensure THEY end up in prison themselves or it least the dock at the ICC and they receive your love there, I'm all for that.
To put it in perspective, zionists in the UK have taken a journalist like Richard Medhusrt who opposes genocide....and charged him with supporting "terrorism"...while they themselves keep sending weapons to Israel and running spy flights to guide Israel bombs on to the heads of Palestinian children.
I mean your second point. When we charge them with their war crimes and prosecute them we are "loving them" because they need to be treated as humans with rights (unlike how they treat others). That's the interpretation of what "Justice is what love looks like in public" means to me.
Nelson Mandela was a wise man. When the Boer government of South Africa came to him seeking a solution to the rising wave of unrest he told them he could've brought down the lightning on them, but chose the route to peace and reconciliation instead. Imagine the hell hole of violence and repression South Africa could have been without Mandela's wisdom. Maybe there's a chance for peace in the Middle East, maybe there isn't. We have to try.
An excellent example! The South African reconciliation panels have done more to bring about health and healing to that society than anything else. It's what MLK Jr. meant by "hate is too heavy a burden to bear." We must practice justice--"what love looks like in public"--and not allow ourselves to fall into the pit of eternal rage and hatred. Build up, not tear down, to bring about peace for everyone on the planet.
thanks for the ‘Love Is The Answer’ article!
“the antidote is always love…”
Like any other addict, the z people must first want to change. They have not arrived at that stage yet. I don't think we have to love them. I think we just have to not hate them. Accept that they are addicted to power and control, that they are afraid. They will change when they think it is to their advantage. Like most humans.
fear is the driving factor of all human perceived ‘separation.
You are so right. You can't make someone change who doesn't want to change. I've tried to--and it doesn't work! And not hating and working for justice is "love." It doesn't have to be flowers and niceties. Convicting war criminals at the ICC is showing love as well to the world and to the perpetrators themselves. They need to learn responsibility and how to be human. If we love others, we must help them grow and learn what they need to learn.
While I can sympathize with your hope, I think you are being extremely naive about Zism. There is no difference between Zism and Nazism. In fact, the Zists throughout Europe ACTIVELY collaborated with the Nazis, sending millions off to die in the camps. Wealthy Zists ACTIVELY collaborated to send poor and rural Jews off to the camps in order to protect their wealth and privilege and get safe passage to other countries.
Your understanding of the founding of Israel is incomplete. The Zist move to conquer Palestine goes back decades before WW II and was so extreme, they lobbied the Nazis to send Jews to the camps instead of other European nations if they could not be sent to Palestine.
The Nazi government even provided some funding for conquering Palestine.
Jewish scholar Tony Greenstein has an excellent article on the Electronic Inifada on an important chapter of Z history: how the young man who escaped Auschwitz and tried to get word to Europe about what was going on in the death camp. The Zist blocked him, smeared him and silenced his warning. They knew what was going on in Auschwitz and ACTIVELY kept the information from Hungarian Jews who thought they were just being sent to labor camps.
The article is here: https://electronicintifada.net/content/guardians-zionist-gatekeeper-rewrites-holocaust-history/48441
Greenstein was raised in an Orthodox family and his father was a rabbi, I encourage you to read his book on Zism to understand what it is really about. It is a brutal form of ethnic and religious hatred and racism. (They even see you and your family as subhuman.) It is fascism of the worst kind. You aren't going to win over the hearts and minds of fascists. While you appeal to a heart that isn't there, innocents are slaughtered. Keep in mind, a majority of Israelis and their government support making the routine, systematic rape of all Palestinian prisoners -- men, women and children -- official policy.
You want to appeal to their better angels? There are none.
I strongly urge you to read Greenstein's book. I did a post which also has an extensive interview with him: "Jewish Scholar's Book Reveals Zionism's Fascist Roots & Close Collaborative Role With Nazi Regime" ... Learning American Zionist leaders had opposed the entry of Jewish refugees from Europe during World War II began a life-long exploration of Zionism's fascist roots.
https://mark192.substack.com/p/jewish-scholars-book-reveals-fascist
History has shown over and over, the only thing you can do with fascists is fight them. The children of Gaza and the West Bank deserve our active, loud resistance and opposition. To do less and hope for a change of heart is to collaborate.
Ah, I see you missed the audience I was aiming for here--those who are working against Z-ism must love (not divide and conquer and harp on each other constantly over nonessential things) each other or else we won't be able to organize effectively and bring about peace in the world. Look at the examples of MLK Jr. and Gandhi and the movements they organized. They were founded on love not simply hating the oppressors. Hating and hating and hating and hating the horribly wounded humans in the world (who are doing terrible things) only makes them into "subhumans" in YOUR own mind. Once you've done that, you've essentially become just as racist/biased as the Z-ists. You think about and do nothing but hateful things. You get nowhere. That is what the MLK Jr. quote is about: "Hate is too great a burden to bear." Constantly hating won't make you see others as humans and you don't set a good example for them to learn from, either. If you start going with the "greater evil" argument, you will only spiral into more negative emotions.. "The Z-ists are worse than the Nazis..." so what will you say when the next group comes along that make the Z-ists look like doves? There can't ever be a NEXT TIME. Evil cannot win over evil. It just makes conditions for more evil in the world. The spiraling down has to be stopped. Organize for peace, not for more war, if you want to stop all wars/genocide.
Love among the those standing against Z/Nism? Makes total sense to overcome differences to align against evil. Seeing Z/Nism fascists for the brutal criminals they are? Oh, yeah. When confronted by evil, confront it from a place of love, but have no illusions about the evil you face or it will gobble you up. There are sociopaths and psychopaths like Z/Nists in the world and they are not changeable or redeemable. They simply need to be called out, confronted and defeated. Zism is one such mass psychopathology.
But we must never become susceptible to their pathology by trying to rationalize our own hatred and evil against them. We must keep walking the high road of justice and compassion. Even for those we see as unredeemable we must treat with dignity as we do ourselves. We must always be cognizant that they are humans just like we are--fallible and capable of great evil. Justice must be fair and swift but never lopsided, or else we will perpetuate the evil and possibly bring about an end to all of us in the next cycle.
Sociopaths and psychopaths are FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT. There is no humanity in such personalities. They are not redeemable. It would be like trying to change a raging hyena into a bunny rabbit. There is fundamental, irredeemable, unchangeable evil in the world. The challenge is to confront it and not lose one's own decency and honor in the process. Some will succeed and some will fail.
Please think about this: Your exact paragraph is precisely what Israelis are taught from early childhood to believe about Palestinians, sometimes even about all Gentiles. This is where their fear, and from that their hate, and their behavior, comes from. It's a mindset that's not the answer, it's the problem. They are human, and they are individuals. Some might not be saveable, and some might. But we have to see ourselves in the same light, and not fall into this blanket belief and its ensuing hatred.
Read my response to RC's "All we are saying..." shot at me below.
There you finally got it--be careful you don't lose your own sense of decency and honor in the process. We should lock up the psychopaths, but we can't become one of them by copying their ways by not recognizing they are human beings. They are and so we need to be treating them justly. Justice should always be fair and swift but never lopsided. This is treating all individuals with love and keeping our own decency. "Justice is what love looks like in public," says Cornel West. Love yourself and love your neighbor. Act justly.
You're still missing it. Justice is one thing. Love in any mutation for psychopaths is another.
I won't go there. To do so is indecent and deep betrayal of their victims.
As an example, watch this very short video a friend just posted out of Gaza. It's pretty rough, so you have to watch it a few times to get what is happening: https://ragspassage.substack.com/p/dont-watch-this?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=362830&post_id=148237727&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2iji4s&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Now consider this is not a one-off or accidental incident. This is yet another act in a months long INTENTIONAL, strategic, systemic program of genocide ... and corporate profit making.
It happens over and over and over ... and over. And will continue on.
And of course, this infant has been attacked by us ... the US. With our tax money. WE are making it possible and are under the direct control and direction of the perpetrators. Those of us who properly oppose this are dragged along by the perverse psychopaths running this government and thus -- even in our opposition -- tainted with responsibility.
People who do this. Fund it. Arm it. Plot it over and over without a moment of hesitation or reflection are evil. Beyond evil. They are some perversion of human ... soulless.
Psychopaths and sociopaths.
Despite all the comforting stuff we like to tell ourselves of the justice brought to Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg trials, the truth is our government rescued many of the worst, put them in our Intel agencies, military, government. Hitler didn't survive the war, but he won it and in one of greatest perversions of history we, under the direction of the ZioNazis, are now doing a genocide just as bad ... and in many ways worse. We have become the evil.
Do I want justice brought down on them? Absolutely.
And I hope it is fierce justice.
I can feel that, support it and not lose my humanity. I can do it from a place of love ... for their victims. As to them? Fuck 'em. To do less would be to betray humanity. and that child gasping for breath in the rubble and a betrayal of justice.
Thank you for the piece.
I don't agree that love is the answer because love fades when it is one-sided.
I recognize that those who are committing genocide are humans, but I won't love them.
I recognize it because I want them to stand before a court and be judged for their acts.
Fear couldn't be a mitigating circumstance that excuses the most horrific acts human being could do. I said human beings because I believe humans are capable of the best and the worst.
You can ask me to advocate for justice because it is the right thing to exercice on everybody whatever our feeling toward them, but don’t ask me to love criminals.
Love is not sustainable when there is injustice, when there is sadism and hatred.
But when you give justice to ALL (this includes both the victims and the perpetrators) you are showing "love." I think a lot of folks have stumbled across the fact that English is a very limited language on this subject. We need to show "agape" toward all humans. This is the unconditional "love" that our shared creator has shown for us all by creating us. "Justice is what love looks like in public" to quote Dr. West. If you are truly for justice--enacted fairly and with integrity for all humans--then you are showing compassion/love to all.
How easy it is to just hate and harp on each other! If we want peace in our time we need to listen to MLK's instructions and focus on our shared humanity. Otherwise, we'll let the oligarchy nuke us all. Choose love not hate!
Yes! Harping and criticizing each other constantly in the peace movement only serves to delay the coming of peace. We must love each other as human or else we'll start treating our supposed comrades as subhuman. Then we've become no better than the foe we're fighting.
Thanks for this. I have always been a big believer that humans have more in common with each other than differences and that the vast majority want to love each other. I have lost this belief in recent months and you’ve reminded me of it. 🙏
You're welcome. I need to be reminded of this often too, or else I get into a very dark spiral of hating others and hating and hating and hating.... And hate is too great a burden to bear. We can't bring about peace and justice in the world if we can't first love ourselves and demonstrate that love to others. We must practice what we preach!
What has this got to do with the blog post?