No one born a bigot … (01/19/15)
No child is born a bigot. Hatred and other degrees of applied ignorance are learned behaviors, and this is true whether the bias shown is tied to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation … or species.
The good news is that, because bigotry must be learned, so too can it be unlearned. Even though we have been taught that those who look different or believe differently or love differently or communicate differently are “less than”, as human beings we ALL have the ability to wake up and remember what we ALL knew as children, namely, that every single sentient being on this planet is equally worthy of a life free from abuse and neglect and enslavement; that every single sentient being on Earth is equally entitled to a life lived without being mutilated or raped or murdered.
And the even better news is that WE CAN CHOOSE to remember these things; that we can ALL choose to enliven the decent, caring and compassion beings we ALL were in our younger days … that we are ALL free to set aside the shackles placed upon us by our countries and our cultures and our communities … that we are ALL free to stand up courageously for the rights of those whose freedoms are being trampled and whose dignity is being shattered and whose lives are being snuffed out.
And the best news of all is that — no matter how much we might have contributed to injustice or cruelty in the past, and no matter how much we might be supporting cruelty or injustice today — we can ALL reawaken to a life of true Courage; we can ALL return to a life of deep Caring; we can ALL re-enliven days of active Compassion; we can ALL re-member a life of unconditional Love.
What we have been taught and what we have learned is no longer an excuse, my Friends … It no longer matters that our friends & our families & our preachers & our lawmakers tell us that abusing others who do not look like we do or act like we do or speak like we do is “ok” or “normal” or “right”.
We know better … and it is time we started acting accordingly.
Peace … S
“As many as 140 BILLION animals are murdered in their youth every year for human consumption — most of them for food. And the overwhelming majority of these animals are forced to live their entire lives in horrendous conditions, with even those on so-called free-range or organic farms still being subjected to horrifying deaths … No sentient creature wishes do die, and death is arguably our greatest fear. And yet we purposefully subject 3 BILLION sentient beings to our own most feared fate every single week. We unnecessarily — and therefore unjustly — feed ourselves and our children with the products of our primitively cruel and violent habits.” ~ inspired by Alessandra Rupar-Weber
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