It is difficult to pronounce when opening your mouth to run the risk of portraying badly and forever. You have to speak in times like these!
Certainly, no one has yet come to break your text or erase your words. But we are increasingly avoiding the risk of commenting on what things, or at least in certain environments, or not?
In addition, it is a risk of named things by name, because the appointment defines the realities to which we are not always ready to face.
Today, MT has called Pakistani to the mayor of London, and the president of the United Kingdom said something like “huh, who is my friend”. Ridiculous. I could also have told him that in the country, he walked on this racist commentary is illegal. That what you just said is a crime of hatred.
Why so many people speak so little and so cowardly? When was it so dangerous to speak, have you seen? Of course, there is afraid of consequences, reprisals. How I remembered Audre Lorde when he said: “Your silence will not protect you.”
Can we live in a world where accomplice silence reigns in brutality?
Talking would not be afraid if we could trust who listens.
How do we listen to ourselves? Do we particular have to some extent in the new forms of persecution of people and ideas? For others, is it sure to talk to us?
When there is no desire to understand or understand, because the other person or what they represent, accuse it, expose your personal belongings to the public, to report your shame, your intimacies or label your current or your immoral past … What is a witch hunt?
What is it, but the apologies of the lynching – and the silence and the censorship of those who share their state? What, but excuses for fear of the difference in homogenization, eagerness for the field?
Purity is a trap. We cannot demand from the other part you have and have always had your clean cupboard. Cleaning, serious trap!
We would better give us the muscle of tolerance. And create these spaces where you can dialogue. Uranus is in Gemini. Speak, write, name, read, listen. Revolutionary. 🙌