logical thinking in an illogical world
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This essay challenges the instinct to feel automatic loyalty toward people who share our identity traits such as gender, race, nationality, or religion. It argues that this impulse is simply modern tribalism in new packaging, and that true equality cannot coexist with identity-based favoritism. The piece makes the case for universal humanism, the idea that moral concern should extend equally to all people, regardless of the group they belong to.
Are you a xenophobe? If not, what are you?
“If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors. ” -Frank Sinatra
If racism is bad, so is nationalism.
The humans of 100 years in the future are going to look back and wonder how the people of 2018 could be so dumb.
Before you start demanding that people who don't look, talk & act just like you are forced to leave America or a a wall is built around the United States to keep people out, take deep breath and try to think logically.
Nationalism is a dangerous, divisive belief system that borders on a religious cult. Treat everyone equally regardless of where they were arbitrarily born.
The idea that an American is somehow inherently better than anyone else on Earth is ludicrous. I'm not talking about rooting for your favorite athlete in the Olympics; I'm talking about the belief that America and Americans in general are a superior breed of human than non-Americans.
