I hold that all human beings everywhere are of equal worth and dignity and that my people are not worth any less or any more. To me it seems bizarre, even stupid, to hold otherwise. I reject all political visions, narratives, and policy agendas that are incompatible with this.
Some people are going to call me an "idealist" (as if that's a slur), or "naive" (when I'm pretty sure I'm smarter than three of them put together). I call myself a human being who understand who he is, who his people are, and who human beings are. It's not complicated.
It's not complicated, but what it entails is made complex by the terrible legacy we have inherited. We didn't choose the past and the past gave us the present - a world brimming with injustice and inequality and a world order that upholds it. Still, a reflection of human ego.
If you give me a policy agenda that solves a problem in one country or community by treating human beings as collateral damage in another, not only will I reject it, I'll be positively hostile towards you, your policy, and whoever else agrees with you.
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