Waleed Aly on Racism...

At last someone I can agree with...

Quote:

"When we're presented with an outrageous opinion we're actually presented with two options: destruction or construction," he said. "We can react emotionally and carelessly and with little genuine critical thought. We can destroy a perceived enemy in the hope it will neutralise a perceived threat that's making us feel unsafe. That's the destructive option." "Or, we can do something that's much more difficult than that, when we're presented with something we perceive to be an outrageous opinion we can consider what motivated that person, try to understand their fear and then empathise with how they came to that conclusion." He added that while "it feels good to choose destruction, right now we need to choose construction," in order to drive out hatred.

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