I have been having a lot of interesting conversations lately. One of which revolved around a Facebook stat I posted. It read:
“FYI: There is no “majority”. You are the only You, therefore you are a minority seeking to validate your existence through group thoughts.”
I talked last week about the System of White Privilege and it’s effects on society. It’s oppressive weight on every person within the structure and how it evolved.
When thinking about the operation of the system, you can not help but think about the individuals involved. I called them cogs. Individuals who are working as a unit, with or without their awareness, to operate the machine that is eating people alive. Thinking group thoughts as a unit.
I called racism a genetic defect. But that’s not the only defect we give them. We also give them the idea of “majority”. We tell them that if they outnumber another group, then they are in power. And power is good. Power is real good. We must keep the power by keeping the others from attaining any power. Any worth given to the others subtracts from our own.
Perhaps this is why the system of white privilege works so well. Because the majority believe it to be truth, that white is right. If they are the majority, those who disagree are negated automatically to the role of minority and the value of their belief is diminished. Perhaps racism is only a by-product of the real issue… believing you are a majority.
I will never understand why some feel that their individual rightness must be off-set by someone else’s wrongness. Why do we feel the need to weigh ourselves against one another? To value ourselves against the worth of one another? Why can’t we simply all have our own individual Value?
I think it has a lot to do with people’s morals. Morality is an ideal. It is a belief. It is defined as not having tangibility, which means it lacks the ability to be universally measured by our 5 senses. Not taste, smell, hearing, touch, or vision. It’s a ghost… and illusion.
When people bring up other cultures and look down at their practices I always wonder what makes them feel so right. No, you may not understand why these people choose not to dress in clothes, but their nudity is not wrong. It is their culture, their way and well within the boundaries of their moral understanding.
What makes your morals better than theirs?
That’s why I have loose morals. I choose not to be so rigid in my belief of right and wrong. If I have not been in a particular situation I try not to judge anyone harshly. As I told my son, it’s better to admit your ignorance, than to hide behind it.
Yet, I seem to be the minority here. I read so many judgmental statements levied against groups of individuals the aggressor has never met personally. And before you bring up that one time at band camp, let me remind you that you have not met every person in the world.
Moral standards are very personal things. And just with the individuals who hold them, no two are exactly alike. Similar, sure. Exact, not at all.
This can be seen within the pro-life/pro-choice debates. While summarily, everyone in the pro-life category is anti-abortion, but when you dig a little deeper you will find diverging opinions on what it means to be anti-abortion. For some that may mean no abortions, no way, now how, never, uh-uh. For others it may mean no abortions unless the life of the mother is at risk. For a few it may mean no abortions unless the quality of the life of child is projected to be poor. It all depends. So, how can they all be the same?
I know it feels good to be a part of something larger than yourself. To not be alone. To not feel alienated. I get that. I know what it means to have morals. I hold quite a few moral beliefs myself. There is nothing sinister about morality… until you use it as a reasoning to infringe on the life of another.
No matter how large you may believe your majority to be, please understand, the opposing side believes they are majorly right as well.
If two wrongs don’t make a right… do two rights make a right?
I’m content being a woman of strong values (personal self-worth) and loose morals. I do not need anyone else to agree with me, my singular majority feels just fine. I do not need anyone else to be wrong for me to be right, my rightness is defined within me. My morals are my own. And they’re loose-fitting.
realistikcommunication 