To all those struggling with selfhood, I respectfully ask you to consider how you are seen. This is how I see you and how I care about you.
I care about your character, not your colour
I care about your genius, not your gender
I care about your reason, not your race
I care about your rights, not your religion
I care about your compassion, not your culture
I care about your ethics, not your equity.
There is only one race, the human race, and character, not characteristics define a human being. Today, our character has become a collage of the collective, of labels, identities, postures, politics, and approvals. It is so very hard in life to discover and nurture your 'self'; to try, test, and trust a set of values by which you can productively interact with others, to be alive and thrive. But when you outsource that process, when you let others define you, especially your values, in trade for acceptance, for membership in the 'clan', you do not own your individuality, you are owned by an identity. You slip from Self to Serf. Do you 'Surf the Net" or does the Net Serf You? And do not think that you can force me to accept your identity or gender as a proxy for character. Your freedom of expression is not a license to oppress others or to cancel and harm others such that you become the oppressor, not the oppressed. Your freedom to express also implies my freedom to exclude, and I will not comply with bigotry in any form, legal or not. For the future of us all, you are an essential part of our mutual journey from Mankind to Man Kind, from Human to Humane!.. We have a civilization to rebuild .....LGBTQ, Let's Get Busy, Together, Quickly.
To all those struggling with selfhood, I respectfully ask you to consider how you are seen. This is how I see you and how I care about you.
I care about your character, not your colour
I care about your genius, not your gender
I care about your reason, not your race
I care about your rights, not your religion
I care about your compassion, not your culture
I care about your ethics, not your equity.
There is only one race, the human race, and character, not characteristics define a human being. Today, our character has become a collage of the collective, of labels, identities, postures, politics, and approvals. It is so very hard in life to discover and nurture your 'self'; to try, test, and trust a set of values by which you can productively interact with others, to be alive and thrive. But when you outsource that process, when you let others define you, especially your values, in trade for acceptance, for membership in the 'clan', you do not own your individuality, you are owned by an identity. You slip from Self to Serf. Do you 'Surf the Net" or does the Net Serf You? And do not think that you can force me to accept your identity or gender as a proxy for character. Your freedom of expression is not a license to oppress others or to cancel and harm others such that you become the oppressor, not the oppressed. Your freedom to express also implies my freedom to exclude, and I will not comply with bigotry in any form, legal or not. For the future of us all, you are an essential part of our mutual journey from Mankind to Man Kind, from Human to Humane!.. We have a civilization to rebuild .....LGBTQ, Let's Get Busy, Together, Quickly.