I didn't watch the video. I hate watching videos. So I'm guessing my answer is probably lacking when I choose only one: human rights (yup, I don't do hashtags, either). Without human rights, all we have is more of the same social injustice that has brought us here. I have come to believe that for any "progess" there is always a backlash. We're living it. Sometimes it feels like two steps forward, one step back. Today it feels like *at least* three steps back, possibly more. Boomers like myself thought we were going to change the world. In a positive, more inclusive way. Boy, did we miss the mark!
The video was the author of the book talking about the book. I recommend the book, although not sure it is the first book to read on Racism and anti-Racism if this isn't a topic someone has ever thought about before at a systemic level (not with the blinders of Western individualism/etc that makes systems thinking so much harder).
One of the reasons I feel compelled to engage in information sharing is that some of the backlash is simply from fear of change, and fear of the unknown. The more people move away from the blinders of individualism and think at a systems level, the less these conversations will feel so unknown, and the more the necessary changes will be embraced rather than feared.
Some of the backlash is from beneficiaries of the current system, but I strongly believe that is small minority of people.
The problem with the term "human rights" is that it means different things to different people. Even the UN's so-called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" was never universal, and said more about the more narrowly Western thinking of the smaller UN membership at the time. UNDRIP added concepts that should have been included in UNUDHR from the beginning.
Same as the term "freedom". For far too many Westerners it has effectively become "freedom from responsibility" as this culture discourages people from thinking beyond themselves and their immediate relations.
I didn't watch the video. I hate watching videos. So I'm guessing my answer is probably lacking when I choose only one: human rights (yup, I don't do hashtags, either). Without human rights, all we have is more of the same social injustice that has brought us here. I have come to believe that for any "progess" there is always a backlash. We're living it. Sometimes it feels like two steps forward, one step back. Today it feels like *at least* three steps back, possibly more. Boomers like myself thought we were going to change the world. In a positive, more inclusive way. Boy, did we miss the mark!
The video was the author of the book talking about the book. I recommend the book, although not sure it is the first book to read on Racism and anti-Racism if this isn't a topic someone has ever thought about before at a systemic level (not with the blinders of Western individualism/etc that makes systems thinking so much harder).
One of the reasons I feel compelled to engage in information sharing is that some of the backlash is simply from fear of change, and fear of the unknown. The more people move away from the blinders of individualism and think at a systems level, the less these conversations will feel so unknown, and the more the necessary changes will be embraced rather than feared.
Some of the backlash is from beneficiaries of the current system, but I strongly believe that is small minority of people.
The problem with the term "human rights" is that it means different things to different people. Even the UN's so-called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" was never universal, and said more about the more narrowly Western thinking of the smaller UN membership at the time. UNDRIP added concepts that should have been included in UNUDHR from the beginning.
Same as the term "freedom". For far too many Westerners it has effectively become "freedom from responsibility" as this culture discourages people from thinking beyond themselves and their immediate relations.
You knocked this one out of the park (a baseball metaphor dedicated to Canada's presence in the World Series, yuk yuk yuk...)!!! Seriously, great job!