Kerala cafe takes ‘Russian Salad’ off its menu in solidarity with Ukraine
Americans Are Boycotting All Things Russia, Including Lukoil Gas Stations
I welcome all good humans from homeless to people in power to be my friend. We rise by helping each other and I am a friend to the world.
“It is bigotry not support to attack all things, Russian. It is vile to hate the people due to the crimes of its leaders. It is like people hating Americans due to the acts of one president. ????”
Greg Q ????????????????@gregquindel Replying to @AthopeMarie
I agree and express thanks and sympathy to millions of Russians on the sane side of history. Unfortunately, when a country invades and occupies another, there will be horrible repercussions unfairly distributed to the general population, an unavoidable consequence of all wars.
Damien Marie AtHope @AthopeMarie Replying to @gregquindel
Wise.
Greg Q ????????????????@gregquindel Replying to @AthopeMarie
Certainly don’t hate Russians but do support the broad and comprehensive financial, travel and product boycott. One country cannot invade, overthrow an elected government then occupy with a puppet. Not on this planet. Not in 2022. That’s what I choose to believe.
Damien Marie AtHope @AthopeMarie Replying to @gregquindel
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_state#Cold_War… America has created or supported the same. It is easy to attack the public but it is the political power, not the people who are involved in the war and its war crimes.
Greg Q ????????????????@gregquindel
Note how your examples are decades old, not even remotely relevant to the world in 2022 and the monstrous actions taken by dictator Putin today, yesterday and the day before…denazification – what a pile of crap. So what. History sucks. America is not always right. Russia invading & occupying #Ukraine is nonetheless indefensible, cruel, horrible and worthy of global condemnation & resistance.
Damien Marie AtHope @AthopeMarie Replying to @gregquindel
And thus we attack political not people and countries are not who attack it is the leaders and it is the leaders we should address. This p[ost is against the bigotry being committed like white paint being thrown on Russian own business and other bigotries.
Greg Q ????????????????@gregquindel Replying to @AthopeMarie
Russia is in a war that Putin started. ALL the effects on Russian business are directly his own and individual fault. Blame the one person who caused this. He’s not hard to identify. Quit pretending that war doesn’t have repercussions. Quit sounding like an apologist.
Damien Marie AtHope @AthopeMarie Replying to @gregquindel
Again you are talking about the issues you want rather than the bigotry and you need to deeply think about it.
Greg Q ????????????????@gregquindel Replying to @AthopeMarie
And you want to pretend that the bigotry isn’t related to one country invading another. What world do you think we live in? I can love and respect the people of Russia but still want them driven out of #Ukraine where they are causing death & destruction.
Damien Marie AtHope @AthopeMarie Replying to @gregquindel
I think Putin is Scum. I think he is a War Criminal and should be stopped. I support the people of Ukraine and Putin’s bigotry of Russian Greatness a Nationalist maniac for sure. And again you use logical fallacies by trying to strawman me.
Greg Q ????????????????@gregquindel Replying to @AthopeMarie
Replying to @gregquindel and @AthopeMarieGlad to hear your clear views on Putin. Wondering why after I wrote “Certainly don’t hate the Russians” but supported boycotts, you replied with a list of “puppet” governments, as if a justification?
Damien Marie AtHope @AthopeMarie Replying to @gregquindel
You tried to make my antibigotry post to a post where you think you get to change the subject and think I need to answer you and think you are doing good? We realize there is something wrong with the world until we forget there is something wrong with the world. It is like a splinter in our mind driving us mad.
Greg Q ????????????????@gregquindel Replying to @AthopeMarie
You didn’t answer the question of why you took me agreeing with you to a list of “puppet” governments, As we seem to generally agree on things, maybe wires just got unintentionally crossed. Take care.
Xenophobia
“Xenophobia (from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos) ‘strange, foreign, alien’, and φόβος (phóbos) ‘fear’) is the fear or hatred of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. It is an expression of perceived conflict between an ingroup and an outgroup and may manifest in suspicion by the one of the other’s activities, a desire to eliminate their presence, and fear of losing national, ethnic, or racial identity.” ref
“An early example of xenophobic sentiment in Western culture is the Ancient Greek denigration of foreigners as “barbarians“, the belief that the Greek people and culture were superior to all others, and the subsequent conclusion that barbarians were naturally meant to be enslaved. Ancient Romans also held notions of superiority over other peoples.” ref
“Ancient Romans also held notions of superiority over all other peoples, such as in a speech attributed to Manius Acilius: There, as you know, there were Macedonians and Thracians and Illyrians, all most warlike nations, here Syrians and Asiatic Greeks, the most worthless peoples among mankind and born for slavery.” ref
“Black Africans were seen as especially exotic, and perhaps threateningly alien, and they are seldom if ever mentioned in Roman literature without some negative connotation. The historian Appian claims that the military commander Marcus Junius Brutus, before the battle of Philippi in 42BC, met an ‘Ethiopian’ outside the gates of his camp: his soldiers instantly hacked the man to pieces, taking his appearance for a bad omen – to the superstitious Roman, black was the color of death.” ref
United States
Main articles: Nativism (politics) § United States, and Racism in the United States
“A network of more than 300 US-based civil rights and human rights organizations stated in a 2010 report that “Discrimination permeates all aspects of life in the United States, and it extends to all communities of color.”[38] Discrimination against racial, ethnic, and religious minorities is widely acknowledged, especially in the case of Indians, Muslims, Sikhs as well as other ethnic groups.” ref
“Members of every major American ethnic and religious minority group have perceived discrimination in their dealings with members of other minority racial and religious groups. Philosopher Cornel West has stated that “racism is an integral element within the very fabric of American culture and society. It is embedded in the country’s first collective definition, enunciated in its subsequent laws, and imbued in its dominant way of life.” ref
“A 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center suggested that 76% of black and Asian respondents had experienced some form of discrimination, at least from time to time. In 2020 the COVID-19 epidemic was often blamed on China, leading to attacks on Chinese Americans. This represents a continuation of xenophobic attacks on Chinese Americans for 150 years.” ref
Persecution of Uighurs
Main article: Uyghur genocide
“Since 2017, China has come under intense international criticism for its treatment of one million Muslims (the majority of them are Uyghurs, an Turkic ethnic minority mostly in Xinjiang) who are being held in secret detention camps without any legal process. Critics of the policy have described it as the Sinicization of Xinjiang and they have also called it an ethnocide or a cultural genocide.” ref
“In March 2020, the Chinese government was found to be using the Uyghur minority for forced labor, inside sweat shops. According to a report which was published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), no fewer than around 80,000 Uyghurs were forcibly removed from the region of Xinjiang and used for forced labor in at least twenty-seven corporate factories.” ref
Chinese nationalism and xenophobia
“Historian Mary C. Wright has argued that the combination of Chinese nationalism and xenophobia had a major impact on the Chinese worldview in the first half of the 20th century. Examining the bitterness and hatred which existed toward Americans and Europeans in the decades before the Communist takeover in 1949, she argues:
The crude fear of the white peril that the last imperial dynasty had been able to exploit in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 had been submerged but not overcome, and expanding special privileges of foreigners were irritants in increasingly wide spheres of Chinese life. These fears and irritations provided a mass sounding board for what otherwise might have been rather arid denunciations of imperialists. It is well to remember that both Nationalists and Communists have struck this note.” ref
Russia
Main article: Racism in Russia
“Lien Verpoest explores the era of the Napoleonic wars to identify the formation of conservative ideas ranging from traditionalism to ardent patriotism and xenophobia. Conservatives generally controlled Russia in the 19th century, and imposed xenophobia in education and the academy. In the late 19th century, especially after nationalistic uprisings in Poland in the 1860s, the government displayed xenophobia in its hostility toward ethnic minorities that did not speak Russian. The decision was to reduce the use of other languages, and insist on Russification.” ref
“By the beginning of the 20th century, most European Jews lived in the so-called Pale of Settlement, the Western frontier of the Russian Empire consisting generally of the modern-day countries of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and neighboring regions. Many pogroms accompanied the Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War, an estimated 70,000 to 250,000 civilian Jews were killed in the atrocities throughout the former Russian Empire; the number of Jewish orphans exceeded 300,000.” ref
“During the civil war era (1917-1922) both the Bolsheviks and the Whites employed nationalism and xenophobia as weapons to delegitimize the opposition. After World War II official national policy was to bring in students from Communist countries in East Europe and Asia for advanced training in Communist leadership roles. These students encountered severe xenophobia on campus. They survived by sticking together, but developed a hostility toward the Soviet leadership. Even after the fall of Communism foreign students faced hostility on campus.” ref
“In the 2000s, “skinheads” were especially visible in attacking anything foreign. Racism against both the Russian citizens (peoples of the Caucasus, indigenous peoples of Siberia and Russian Far East, etc.) and non-Russian citizens of Africans, Central Asians, East Asians (Vietnamese, Chinese, etc.), and Europeans (Ukrainians, etc.) became a significant factor.” ref
“Using surveys from 1996, 2004, and 2012, Hannah S. Chapman, et al. reports a steady increase in Russians’ negative attitudes toward seven outgroups. Muscovites especially became more xenophobic. In 2016, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported that “Researchers who track xenophobia in Russia have recorded an “impressive” decrease in hate crimes as the authorities appear to have stepped up pressure on far-right groups”. David Barry uses surveys to investigate the particularistic and xenophobic belief that all citizens should join Russia’s dominant Orthodox religion. It is widespread among ethnic Russians and is increasing.” ref
Ukraine
Main article: Racism and discrimination in Ukraine
“Israel’s Antisemitism Report for 2017 stated that “A striking exception in the trend of decrease in antisemitic incidents in Eastern Europe was Ukraine, where the number of recorded antisemitic attacks was doubled from last year and surpassed the tally for all the incidents reported throughout the entire region combined.” Ukrainian state historian, Vladimir Vyatrovich dismissed the Israeli report as anti-Ukrainian propaganda, and a researcher of antisemitism from Ukraine, Vyacheslav Likhachev said the Israeli report was flawed and amateurish.” ref
Israel
See also: Racism in Israel and Anti-Arabism in Israel
“According to the 2004 U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Israel and the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government had done “little to reduce institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country’s Arab citizens.” The 2005 US Department of State report on Israel wrote: “[T]he government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, there were problems in some areas, including… institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country’s Arab citizens.” ref
“The 2010 U.S. State Department Country Report stated that Israeli law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, and the Israeli government effectively enforced these prohibitions. Former Likud MK and Minister of Defense Moshe Arens has criticized the treatment of minorities in Israel, saying that they did not bear the full obligation of Israeli citizenship, nor were they extended the full privileges of citizenship.” ref
“The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) published reports which documented racism in Israel, and the 2007 report suggested that anti-Arab racism was increasing in the country. One analysis of the report summarized it thus: “Over two-thirds of Israeli teens believe that Arabs are less intelligent, uncultured and violent. The Israeli government spokesman responded that the Israeli government was “committed to fighting racism whenever it raises its ugly head and is committed to full equality to all Israeli citizens, irrespective of ethnicity, creed or background, as defined by our declaration of independence.” ref
“Isi Leibler of the Jerusalem Center for Public affairs argues that Israeli Jews are troubled by “increasingly hostile, even treasonable outbursts by Israeli Arabs against the state” while it is at war with neighboring countries. A 2018 poll by Pew Research Center also suggested there to be particularly widespread anti-refugee sentiment among surveyed Israelis compared to the people from other selected countries.” ref
We need to call out ALL bigotry. It is an ethical thing to do.
Anarchist Teaching as Free Public Education or Free Education in the Public: VIDEO
I do anarchist teaching of prehistory, in that I don’t just make a blog, expecting people to come to me. No, I take all my knowledge and like a gorilla soldier, I force-feed to the world my knowledge, one piece at a time, that is just what is needed. So, I heed that call and teach in public…
I wish people fought as hard for the actual values as they fight for the group/clan names political or otherwise they think support values. Every amount spent on war is theft to children in need of food or the homeless kept from shelter. In very dark times, Solidarity always. I am a socialist anarchist and I welcome all good humans.
In times of struggle or strife we humans can be most out of shape mentally so be patient as you can with others as we all are going through hell right now and desperately need each other. I just strive to live in the wonder of the moment. I value each experience as much as possible. I welcome life. I hope to live a life of value.
I am an anti-nationalist and anti-capitalist to my core. I stand in solidarity with humanity, not borders or nations, rather it is the humans from every single plot of dirt they happen to currently live on. We are all one. Don’t let imaginary borders tell you who to love or hate.
We need to value the humanity expressed or exchanged in and by people, not the job title, claim of education level, or political power, nor how cool you might be. We rise by helping each other. Is a fellow human being harmed? Then, hell yes, to me it is personal. A person of honor is not the same as a person who is never mad.
Imagine a world with enough excess to support all humanity yet we choose to change for everything even that found for free in or on the land. And a sociopath society more move to want killing in war spending almost like an addicted mind bent on killing itself rather than change.
Capitalism is followed like a religion, in that no matter how much harm it contains or can produce will not matter much to the “sacred profits” placed far above being ethical caretakers of the Earth or ethical profit distribution. As always the privileges of the powerful always come at the expense of the most valuable.
A few important anarchist themes to me: No one owns the Earth, so it must be shared ethically. Everyone owns themselves and is due human rights attached to such self-sovereignty. And that we rise by helping each other and thus should strive to unite in solidarity and community.
What is the price of a tear, what is the cost of a smile; can one see clear when others pay the price of their fear? If we don’t stop the suffering and harm, will the cost be more than we can take to our humanity? I feel disappointed and somewhat disturbed by the passion for war too many people seem to express.
Like war is fun video games not killing real life. I welcome peace and want all war to end. I am also sad at all harm and wish reason, not war wins. How are so many happy at war? Supporting the struggle of defense is not the same as Supporting WAR. Violence is acceptable for self-defense and other-defense and I strive for non-aggression as a way of life. I hate all acts of violence, even if for defense, as loss of life is just that, the harm I wish ended…
Judge vs Value
Value “you”, then value others, you matter, and anyone not ok with that “seem” to not value your self-mastery, or your dignity to live, and express them. If this bothers others on our mattering and human rights, then one wonders if they are actually good in our lives. I strive to add my joy into the lives of others as joy is a feeling, not a place.
Reason is not a one-time doorway but a step further in our journey.
The door to “Reason” opens not once but many times. And “Reason” is a revolutionary process, as it requires a change to what is “Reason,” over what is desired by its user to work well.
My political thinking is humanity first, fighting for strong human rights, to stop all the wrongs.
“One Day”
One day we will be humanity, free of the shackles of separation. One day we will be free of the dark postcards of the past written in the suffering and hate of others. One day we will aspire past the strangling grip of bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, and egocentrism that removes the humanism from the greatness available to humans. May I not be a silent watcher of such travesty but a champion of the possibility of change. May we all rise to the lofty goals of true human flourishing and live as one. I hold my heart high hoping for that one day when the love of unity will be who we are as humanity, free from the shackles of hate that now so easily separate and enslave us.
Realize value in life: Life is short but not as short as the times we smile or laugh, and even shorter are the times our heart smiles or we are filled with bliss, love, and joy. Good must have Bad? I was asked by a believer if I agreed that to value good we had to know or have bad. I reject this completely you don’t have to get punched to know the value of a hug. Nor would you add pain and suffering to a child to ensure that they valued love or joy.
Religion is a toxic substance to one’s self-mastery as it demands you rely on “it” as a subordinate, not to empower yourself.
I never read a book on logic but I am smarter even without them. I invent new thinking out of pure reason and experience. Reason is my only master. You want me to consider your ideas fairly, openly, and honestly. That is the only way, I strive to view everything. How about you? Is truth before your EGO?
Someone asked if I was a scientist due to the quality of my thinking, the same has been assumed before but for different skills, like a college professor, or classic trained philosopher, but no, my BA in college was for psychology, with some sociology.
I strive to stay open to the counsel of others, sometimes I agree with others’ ideas, sometimes I don’t, and always, truth-dependent beliefs are my goal.
I strive to attack ideas and not people as it is the people, themselves I aim to get on my side, so we together can fight their belief’s inaccuracies. Thus navigating truth claims accurately, understanding that which is worthy to call truth, is all that is championed or believed.
I know, almost it all, in a big picture way, religion is cultural stories, nothing more, is all false and I explain the evolution of it all in my art, videos, and blogs. I am the best on the evolution of religion in pre-history from at least from 100,000 to 5,000 years ago.
Humanity is harmed by class separations, we are all one! Stop seeing with eyes of difference/hate. Some are hardly bothered to care, showing clearly their entitlement to not be forced by life to have little choice but to care. How ego-driven are we, to not see the need of others?
And think others sometimes think I am bad for not knowing more about the Bible or another Holy book, and I think bad of others for not knowing that more than the Bible or another Holy book, when it comes to prehistoric religions… lol
Many others hope, it seems, for an “outer revolution” to happen to break capitalism but I know the break will first come mentally when one reaches self-mastery, an “inner revolution” happens and this, a WORLD of self-leadership, is what will help to break capitalism.
I have been homeless needing any handout. So, I feel compelled now to fight for them first, the ones dying right now, and are on the last hope. We rise by helping each other. I am real as shit. I actually was doing shitty inside, even feeling as if I was drowning and powerless. I see it is not power but purpose, passion, and compassion, this is our call to freedom. Our own self-mastery, a Mental Revolution.
I want to change the world leave it a better place than I found it as others do, the great thing is to me we all do because a movement is not a single person. Some look at their contribution and are disheartened believing they will not really matter. Your contribution matters!
Remember I was not always kind, it is a choice I make, to show the highest value of my honor. I am a high-functioning sociopath and am arrogant. I don’t doubt myself. It is more like I have to work to listen to others and care about others that deeply. I was experienced extreme child abuse and thus turned sociopath as a result. So a bad PTSD and its related type issues.
Many other philosophers are born of privilege, safety, and comfort. I had not one of these, I was unwanted, the hated, and the despised. I made my mind fast on the streets of southern California where I had to navigate gangs, police, and society at large displeased with my life.
I don’t value intelligence above kindness, because how smart can you be if kindness is something you are not wise enough to grasp, such as the deep value kindness holds to humanity, or how much its addition can change lives. I always think, of any mean people, how smart can they be, if they are not wise enough to see the beauty of kindness?
We often need to strive to stop demanding others think like us, explain it, thoughtfully as one to a friend. Then let truth win. And live in a way so different. so positive to humanity, others become interested to learn more, safety first, even in ideas, it seems for many people. Archaeology is our hope to a better future by exposing the past, if only we learn from it. Religion is provable as all Culture.
I see the hope in others as much as our faults. I will not let the world divide me. I am just gangbanging for humanity, a worrier of kindness. I am a proud anarchy theorist, I breathe the fire of the heathens, a thought revolutionary and mental freedom fighter. I am a humanist atheist who desires a better world for us all, one that is kinder, more just, and more rational in its pursuits.
If your socialism is so weak that voting to help in the here and now, threatens it, you don’t have my socialism, as no capitalism, no matter how gilded, threatens my socialism, as it shines strong with humanity, so bright all can see its hope. Humbly, I face the weight of my human limitations, and tell them to go to hell, do they not know who I am? I am mental dynamite, I thought you KNEW.
Why should we ever value people differently, simply because of what patch of earth they inhabit? What would make your value different as a human, simply due to an imaginary cultural construct of separation called national identity or borderlines imposed by states or countries?
I believe in your inner power, to rise strong, in your own self-mastery.
May we ALL unite AS ONE to smash capitalism and class society!
You, me, everyone is a needed part of the solution!
While hallucinogens are associated with shamanism, it is alcohol that is associated with paganism.
The Atheist-Humanist-Leftist Revolutionaries Shows in the prehistory series:
Show two: Pre-animism 300,000 years old and animism 100,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show tree: Totemism 50,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show four: Shamanism 30,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show five: Paganism 12,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show six: Emergence of hierarchy, sexism, slavery, and the new male god dominance: Paganism 7,000-5,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Capitalism) (World War 0) Elite and their slaves!
Prehistory: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” the division of labor, power, rights, and recourses: VIDEO
Pre-animism 300,000 years old and animism 100,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Totemism 50,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Shamanism 30,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Paganism 12,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Pre-Capitalism): VIDEO
Paganism 7,000-5,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Capitalism) (World War 0) Elite and their slaves: VIEDO
Paganism 5,000 years old: progressed organized religion and the state: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Kings and the Rise of the State): VIEDO
Paganism 4,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (First Moralistic gods, then the Origin time of Monotheism): VIEDO
I do not hate simply because I challenge and expose myths or lies any more than others being thought of as loving simply because of the protection and hiding from challenge their favored myths or lies.
The truth is best championed in the sunlight of challenge.
An archaeologist once said to me “Damien religion and culture are very different”
My response, So are you saying that was always that way, such as would you say Native Americans’ cultures are separate from their religions? And do you think it always was the way you believe?
I had said that religion was a cultural product. That is still how I see it and there are other archaeologists that think close to me as well. Gods too are the myths of cultures that did not understand science or the world around them, seeing magic/supernatural everywhere.
I personally think there is a goddess and not enough evidence to support a male god at Çatalhöyük but if there was both a male and female god and goddess then I know the kind of gods they were like Proto-Indo-European mythology.
The “Atheist-Humanist-Leftist Revolutionaries”
Cory Johnston ☭ Ⓐ Atheist Leftist @Skepticallefty & I (Damien Marie AtHope) @AthopeMarie (my YouTube & related blog) are working jointly in atheist, antitheist, antireligionist, antifascist, anarchist, socialist, and humanist endeavors in our videos together, generally, every other Saturday.
Why Does Power Bring Responsibility?
Think, how often is it the powerless that start wars, oppress others, or commit genocide? So, I guess the question is to us all, to ask, how can power not carry responsibility in a humanity concept? I know I see the deep ethical responsibility that if there is power their must be a humanistic responsibility of ethical and empathic stewardship of that power. Will I be brave enough to be kind? Will I possess enough courage to be compassionate? Will my valor reached its height of empathy? I as everyone earns our justified respect by our actions, that are good, ethical, just, protecting, and kind. Do I have enough self-respect to put my love for humanity’s flushing, over being brought down by some of its bad actors? May we all be the ones doing good actions in the world, to help human flourishing.
I create the world I want to live in, striving for flourishing. Which is not a place but a positive potential involvement and promotion; a life of humanist goal precision. To master oneself, also means mastering positive prosocial behaviors needed for human flourishing. I may have lost a god myth as an atheist but I am happy to tell you my friend, it is exactly because of that, leaving the mental terrorizer, god belief that I truly regained my connected ethical as well as kind humanity.
Cory and I will talk about prehistory and theism, addressing the relevance to atheism, anarchism, and socialism.
At the same time of the rise of the male god 7,000 years ago was also the very time there was the rise of violence war, and clans to kingdoms, then empires, then states. It is all connected back to 7,000 years ago and it mover across the world.
Cory Johnston: https://damienmarieathope.com/2021/04/cory-johnston-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftist/?v=32aec8db952d
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Damien Marie AtHope (“At Hope”) Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist. Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Poet, Philosopher, Advocate, Activist, Psychology, and Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Historian.
Damien is interested in: Freedom, Liberty, Justice, Equality, Ethics, Humanism, Science, Atheism, Antiteism, Antireligionism, Ignosticism, Left-Libertarianism, Anarchism, Socialism, Mutualism, Axiology, Metaphysics, LGBTQI, Philosophy, Advocacy, Activism, Mental Health, Psychology, Archaeology, Social Work, Sexual Rights, Marriage Rights, Woman’s Rights, Gender Rights, Child Rights, Secular Rights, Race Equality, Ageism/Disability Equality, Etc. And a far-leftist, “Anarcho-Humanist.”
I strive to be a good human ethical in both my thinking and behaviors thus I strive to be:
Anti-racist, Anti-sexist, Anti-homophobic, Anti-biphobic. Anti-transphobic, Anti-classist, Anti-ablest, Anti-ageist, and as Always ???? Antifascist ????
In fact, I want to strive to avoid as much as I can bigoted thinking towards others based on their perceived membership or classification based on that person’s perceived political affiliation (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics), sex/gender, beliefs (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics), social class (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics), age, disability, religion (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics), sexuality (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics), race, ethnicity, language (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics), nationality, beauty, height, occupation (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics), wealth (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics), education, sport-team affiliation, music tastes or other personal characteristics (Well: within reason, justice, and ethics).
Although, I am a “very”, yes, VERY strong atheist, antitheist as well as antireligionist, My humanity is just as strong and I value it above my disbeliefs. My kind of people are those who champion humanity, the ones who value kindness, love justice, and support universal empowerment for all humans, we are all equal in dignity, and all deserve human rights, due self-sovereignty.
Who should win? The “Truth” or one of our EGOs?
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Damien Marie AtHope (Said as “At” “Hope”)/(Autodidact Polymath but not good at math):
Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist, Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Jeweler, Poet, “autodidact” Philosopher, schooled in Psychology, and “autodidact” Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Pre-Historian (Knowledgeable in the range of: 1 million to 5,000/4,000 years ago). I am an anarchist socialist politically. Reasons for or Types of Atheism
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