A train has been launched that is staffed by only people who self-identity with LGBT. This means that 94.6% of the UK population cannot apply for a job on the train and will be discriminated against on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Yet the LGBT community pride themselves in their inclusivity and vocally reject prejudice and discrimination.
Now the ugly side of humans is revealed. LGBT are actually no different from anyone else, and share exactly the same levels of tight, self-protective, exclusive, clique, prejudice behaviour as any other humans.
One good thing to come from this is that the LGBT community should now be able to draw solidarity not just with themselves but with those who are prejudice against them. They will be able to see that the "us and them" distinction is false, and they are no different from the people they have sort to distance themselves from and assume moral superiority to. The stereotypical "gay hater" is actually the same as an LGBT person!
This is where Religions have trod so powerfully before. Jesus says love thy enemy, and most importantly to the crowd ready to stone a prostitute "if anyone is without sin throw the first stone." Humans are joined by their narrow mindedness, their sin, their frailty, ignorance and suffering.
The anti-prejudice movement may look on the surface to be very noble but it is nothing. There is only one prejudice and that is not respecting The Other. The Devil lies exactly in this tendency to view what is near as more important than what is far, to see oneself before we see others. Perhaps its a natural result of "perspective" that we see what is near before we see what is far. But as Buddha argues at length with Ananda in the Shurangama Sutra such a mind is extremely limited and fails to grasp the truth.
So LGBT like many groups need to be very wary of the Devil walking boldly in their midst. The goal here is to respect The Other, even when The Other is ones enemy and seems to threaten what we hold dear and close. What is close is really very far, like the person unable to leave their treasured possessions and so burning along with their house. To be truly free we must be able to leave what is close when the time is right.
That time has come. People who truly believe in diversity, freedom and respect should weaken their links to the LGBT community. They should not fuel greater divisions and prejudice in the community.
To me the whole thing is a mistake anyway. If any experiences violence or hatred on any grounds that is a crime. There is no need to specify the "type" of prejudice. Perhaps one day I will be prejudiced against by someone with a hatred of people who like snakes (as I do). Perhaps they have a snake phobia after being bitten, or believe that snakes are the devil. Perhaps that irrational fear will lead to me being attacked. So I report it to the police, and find they are snake haters too. So indeed I find the problem is big: the Bible has really made people hate snakes. So I join together with other snake lovers and sympathisers in my cause and begin a long political process to rid myself and others of harm and hatred. Great that is politics.
BUT, I don't enshrine snake loving in law, or form societies of snake lovers that exclude non-snake lovers. Or teach people about snake love in school. And yes "snake love" can be read as a metaphor for penis love too. The point is just to ensure that people are free from harm and hatred and nothing else.
So this train is a big problem and represents the very world it is supposed to be against. Humans 0 : 1 Devil.
No comments:
Post a Comment