What if a Minority became the Majority? Would they behave any differently? Shocking answer: NO!

[RamaRaksha]

We are all bombarded with news feeds of Racism here in the US and the rest of the world - and of course there are other kinds of discrimination as well, Sexism stands out to me

Minorities never fail to lecture us that we should treat everyone equally - that a human being matters, not his skin color or gender

But what if a Minority were to find itself as the majority? Would they behave any differently? The shocking answer is a big NO!

I am a minority here in the US - from India & I have had my share of discrimination. But when I go back to India, now I am the majority. First of all, no country is perfect, there is no country where a minority does not feel slighted

But I came face to face with a situation where a minority finds itself as a majority & they behaved EXACTLY like the majority

I was friendly with a black co-worker, about my age and I thought we hit it off well. Well one day we are discussing Racism in this country and obviously we agreed on many things. But then I made the mistake of telling him that I was an Atheist Hindu! Suddenly his manner changed. He coolly informs me that I was going to hell! "Works don't matter" it seems, only religion matters!

It struck me that all this religion did was to change "skin color" to "religion" and now my black "friend" was a willing Racist! Now a majority Christian, he was now a very willing hater!

Now, morals don't matter, values do not matter, the human being does not matter, all that matters is religion, belief!

Billions of us - Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists - Entire families, women, children, even babies? - are to find ourselves in a Nazi Germany like After life - we will be the Jews, set apart & dumped into gas chambers in hell!

This is what this hate and division boils down to

And they can OPENLY PROMOTE such Nazi ideas of division and hate & these religions are the top ones in the 21st century!

We see this with Muslims as well - we get lectured on how "Just a few Muslims are giving the vast majority a bad name" - we should not judge people by religion. They are the same as the rest of us, wanting the same things. We must treat everyone the same etc etc

All great words, that we can all agree on

But what happens when we go to countries like Pakistan where Muslims are the vast majority? Here comes in-your-face religious hate & discrimination. All the laws favor Muslims, all the top jobs are reserved for Muslims, Muslims can convert non-Muslims but the reverse is not allowed. And every year hundreds lose their lives and livelihood because of violence perpetuated by blasphemy laws!

I keep asking - where are the educated? Where or where are the moral? The philosopher?

Can it be this easy to promote hate & division even in the 21st century?

[CharonY]

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On 2/14/2022 at 10:17 PM, Phi for All said:

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