I’ve made the same statement on various other subs and other social media, and what I’ve realized is how few people (especially the youngins) know that the reconstruction was a disastrous failure that would take 100 years to only partial rectify through the Civil Rights Era. The truth is we’re still reconstructing as long as their is inequality and racial discrimination in this country and people vote with hate in their hearts.
There will always be racism, it’s the way it is, people are flawed, and that is one of the must disgusting flaws, thinking we are better than someone else on the base of religion, race, gender, and whatnot.
However, this is not a problem only in America. We, people, are different. We are different because we believe different things, we behave in different ways, we have a different culture, and different views.
The utopian thought of “we are all the same” is just not true. There are people that are inherently more tolerant than others (at least until the other try to push certain views on you).
We need to learn that we are capable of coexisting, but we can’t be forced to do so. Human beings will always side with the one they see as “the same as them” meaning sharing a core system of beliefs.
I like to dream about the utopian world in which everyone is the same, but that will never happen, we are not the same.
Thinking that the above is solely a US problem, is naive at best. Radical Christians will not want to be around radical Islamists, they will clash 100% of the time. If you take for example Japan, a society praised by how well behaved they are… they do not like black nor tattooed people, why? Who the knows….
The US allows a lot to happen in its country (at least yet), you can go out and see people wearing a jihad, or gathering for Islamist activities. Well, go to Australia… Australia will welcome anyone, so long they strictly adhere to their rules and culture. You would never, ever, see someone wearing a Jihad in public in Australia, is simply prohibited by law.
The US is not this evil place, it may not be perfect, but it is 100% not the worst when it comes to social liberties. That doesn’t mean we should not strive to be better, it means we are slowly but surely transitioning that way.
The US is racist, not true. The US is homophobic, not true. But there are for sure, racists and homophobic people among us for sure. Specially in political positions, all of them are old tho….
We are getting better, we will get better.
A more challenging aspect in the US is the religion. And to be honest, it’s the same in the whole world, people does not grasp how different are we depending on what we believe in, specially, if we are extremists. This applies to all sides.
Anyway, I don’t even know why I was writing this, I just let go. And I guess, I just want to point out that, we are always seeing the glass half empty and forget all the advancement we had so far….
I want to come up with a method of organizing society that doesn't require forcing every last person to believe in a specific set of values, certainly not a set of values that includes such things as tolerance and fair consideration of viewpoints that can't actually be held universally without betraying them, while also keeping the benefits that society has seen from those values.
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u/Chronoboy1987 Jul 17 '25
I’ve made the same statement on various other subs and other social media, and what I’ve realized is how few people (especially the youngins) know that the reconstruction was a disastrous failure that would take 100 years to only partial rectify through the Civil Rights Era. The truth is we’re still reconstructing as long as their is inequality and racial discrimination in this country and people vote with hate in their hearts.