Hate doesn't beat hate
"returning hate for hate multiplies hate - adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot destroy darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot destroy hate - only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
People on both sides are so busy seeing the other side as evil and racist and everything-wrong-with-this-country, and seeing their own side as the perfect, shining beacon of righteousness, that it makes it really, REALLY hard for most people to recognize the racism on their own side, and in their own hearts.
Social Justice people are so busy fighting against racism in the system and with cops that they don't acknowledge the racism and biases in their own hearts and in their own movement. Cops are so busy fighting against the hateful view that so many people have of them as all being evil racist monsters that it makes it increasingly impossible for them to break ranks and to own and acknowledge and excise the truly racist cops, or to acknowledge the unconscious racism and bias in so many of their own hearts.
The truth is that hating the other side doesn't make things better - it only makes things worse. The truth is that rigidly refusing to admit your own side's faults or to give an inch or to change just encourages the other side to also rigidly refuse to admit their faults or to give an inch or to change.
People on both sides are so busy seeing the other side as evil and racist and everything-wrong-with-this-country, and seeing their own side as the perfect, shining beacon of righteousness, that it makes it really, REALLY hard for most people to recognize the racism on their own side, and in their own hearts.
Social Justice people are so busy fighting against racism in the system and with cops that they don't acknowledge the racism and biases in their own hearts and in their own movement. Cops are so busy fighting against the hateful view that so many people have of them as all being evil racist monsters that it makes it increasingly impossible for them to break ranks and to own and acknowledge and excise the truly racist cops, or to acknowledge the unconscious racism and bias in so many of their own hearts.
The truth is that hating the other side doesn't make things better - it only makes things worse. The truth is that rigidly refusing to admit your own side's faults or to give an inch or to change just encourages the other side to also rigidly refuse to admit their faults or to give an inch or to change.
