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Ignoring the Unthinkable

Submitted by Ann Dixon on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:35pm.

If the root cause of hatred is estrangement from one another, then the solution might be found in not mere tolerance of difference/"otherness", but true acceptance. I look into my self and ask, "who do I think of as 'other' to me? who do I objectify? who do I write off as "them?"  -- September 2011

Ten years later, I am struck by how much I don't want to talk or think about this topic, even though it has defined the past decade in known and also undiscovered ways. It is part of our culture to "package" the experience so that it is bounded and we don't need to think very much about the unthinkable.

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