Thread by @sunnshiiny

It continues to befuddle me that people continue to skirt around the issue.

The far right BELIEVES that god chose Jews as a people above all others. A superior culture. With people who are superior to all other cultures.

https://twitter.com/opendemocracy/status/1398972975198752770

Why no one is willing to name the central issue is confusing.

While most people who claim liberalist, humanist and egalitarian beliefs, this inconsistency has been glossed over for centuries.

Egalitarianism can NOT be true, if one culture is above all others.

Complicating this even more is the Dominionist Christian belief that Jews were god’s favoured people before Jesus, but evangelical Christians have replaced Jews as god’s favoured people.

Many like to believe there was a point in time that religion and politics were separate.

But this foundational belief, held by traditionalists and the devoutly faithful has been the underpinnings of global politics throughout western civilization for centuries.

Faith in god has shaped geopolitics since Christianity was adopted by most of Europe.

So it’s a fallacy that egalitarianism can coexist with this fundamental belief that Jews were god’s favourite, but Christians are god’s current favourite.

It’s that simple.

But millions avoid cognitive dissonance and somehow rationalize they do not undermine egalitarianism.

The belief in a superior race or culture is antithetical to the belief that all people are equal.

They are fundamentally opposing belief systems which the majority of the population of Christians and Jews have selectively ignored the diametric polarity and inconsistency.

The insistence of far right leaders to reinforce this belief is central to the far right’s dogma.

This is the foundational belief underlying every far right assertion that they and they alone are entitled to wealth and power.

This belief is so central to their ideology, that a challenge of this belief would crumble their entire ideological belief and value system. It’s existential to their premise that they alone are worthy of power and wealth.

These beliefs underlie patriarchy, the preferred hierarchy and the social and economic policies of western civilization. And they have for generations.

While the Dominionist beliefs are NOT the root cause of ALL racism, the legitimization of different levels of human worth is.

Ultimately humanity has not escaped the trappings of classism and until these beliefs are challenged and replaced, it never will. That’s how engrained in the human psyche classism truly is.

For all of our efforts to gain legal human rights for every human being, it’s the belief in classism that prevents it from becoming reality.

It always has been and always will be the bane of egalitarianism.

Yet we fervently ignore it as a species.

We cannot solve the geopolitical problems of human beings without addressing this central tenet of belief and values.

It’s truly that simple.

We don’t need long soliloquies that rationalize why some people view other people as inferior.

All we need do is acknowledge there are no inferior classes of humans. In any form.

Men are NOT superior to women. We’re different, but equal in value.

White people are NOT superior to people of colour. Human beings just have different levels of melatonin.

Heterosexual people are NOT superior to LGBTQ. It’s just easier to produce offspring in a heterosexual union.

Wealthy people are NOT superior to those in poverty. Human worth is not dependent upon the size of a bank balance.

The well educated are NOT superior to those less worldly or well read. They have specialized skills, but it doesn’t make them a better human being.

The able bodied are NOT superior to the disabled. Varying levels of ability physically & mentally do not define worth.

Conservatives are NOT superior to other political belief systems. But since that belief persists, billions of people are denied worth.

The systematic application of class & stratification to note worth is used by the left too.

How many believe they are superior to cons because their beliefs include social & collective values?

Many don’t view political differences as perspective but as indicators of worth.

As a species, humans really are not that smart nor as evolved as we often choose to believe.

Mammalian herd and pack animals use hierarchical stratification of individual members for social organization and power distribution.

Humans have not escaped that proclivity.

Is it our instinct to classify other members of our species? Or just a bad habit we have yet to abandon?

Classification of others tied to worth, power and access to resources defines EVERY social mammal.

As it does human beings.

Human beings have debated human worth and class for millennia, eons. And we have not found a solution to this conundrum.

Our belief in the legitimacy of different levels of worth is the cause of so many of our social ills and problems.

People come in all shapes, sizes, colour, gender, level of knowledge, talent, skill, comfort with change and diversity.

We profess that all lives are equal. But our actions belie our true beliefs.

We’re still pack animals.

Applying various classification systems and hierarchical structures to make sense of society and our individual place in it.

The “pecking order.”

There will ALWAYS be differences in gender, colour, culture, sexuality, intellectual and physical capacity, and yes even wealth.

But we don’t have to classify those differences as indicators of worth.

However, we do need to delegitimize the belief systems that use diversity to create division and animus.

Religious faith that identifies a superior class of people can not be legitimized any more.

The root of autocratic power is the foundational belief in a superior class of entitled people.

It’s created most conflicts across the globe for millennia.

Yet most don’t even realize the inherent inconsistency in our foundational belief systems that permit this opinion.

Solving the world’s problems is simply removing the option for any cultural or racial group of people to claim superiority over all others.

Easier said than done.

Changing that belief system would rock the human species to the core.

There are no simplistic solutions.

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