The game of division and hate

We have a media-industrial complex devoted to making white people feel like they are being threatened.

This media complex sends messages that white people are more important than nonwhites, Christians more important than non-Christians, native-born more than immigrant, male than female, straight than queer, and cis-gender than trans.

Those on the right seize upon this devotion and polarising, seeding fear. 

In her brilliant book Caste, Isabel Wilkerson points out that the power of status, even when you are one rung up from the poorest and most marginalised, is strong. You do not want those ‘below’ you to take your spot. This fear is common across the world, transcending race.

This culture of fear and superiority is endorsed by the winner-loser game that we celebrate.

The way out of this power game is to see it for what it is. To recognise that cruelty that lives in superiority. To understand that the game of division and fear has been the constant across history as those who seek power for their own gain play the people against each other.

And to stop denigrating others as lesser than, not worthy of, or wrong for their gender or gender choices. 

We must call out, persistently and clearly, those who platform division and hate. Even those around us. For to remain silent to the first little atrocity of division and hate is to seed its progeny.

Photo Taken October 23rd 2024, Article written October 24th 2024