Political Dust-Up
Since the shootings in Charleston, my politics have created a political dust-up on Facebook. I refuse to be appalled by the graffiti on statues of Civil War Confederate "heroes," and yet I see the firing of teachers for racist Facebook posts as a potentially dangerous path. (I figure anyone that dumb and racist will show her hand and work and can be fired for cause without opening the door to firing people for their politics or private lives.)
Also, in one of those uncomfortable moments of synchronicity, I've bumped up against the third component of the Noble Eight-Fold Path, Right Speech, part of which is "don't go around blathering nonsense." And I've known/noticed for a long, long time how everybody has different views on things because of how they were raised, the different environment they grew up in, different experiences they've had, etc. And all this affects how you see the world, so you have to make allowances for that.
But still, some of these people are just damned wrong.
But the more I've been living with it lately, from a Buddhist point of view, we're all just damned wrong.
So I'm going to make a concerted effort to just drop out of the argument, which doesn't mean I'm not going to vote, or support what I see as positive movements in the culture or society. I'm just not going to talk/argue about it.
Well, I did repost the Supreme Court's decision today with a big YES!, and a pro Bernie Sanders cartoon, but I'm working on it.
Also, in one of those uncomfortable moments of synchronicity, I've bumped up against the third component of the Noble Eight-Fold Path, Right Speech, part of which is "don't go around blathering nonsense." And I've known/noticed for a long, long time how everybody has different views on things because of how they were raised, the different environment they grew up in, different experiences they've had, etc. And all this affects how you see the world, so you have to make allowances for that.
But still, some of these people are just damned wrong.
But the more I've been living with it lately, from a Buddhist point of view, we're all just damned wrong.
So I'm going to make a concerted effort to just drop out of the argument, which doesn't mean I'm not going to vote, or support what I see as positive movements in the culture or society. I'm just not going to talk/argue about it.
Well, I did repost the Supreme Court's decision today with a big YES!, and a pro Bernie Sanders cartoon, but I'm working on it.