Evil, and bystanders vs. upstanders

In this post today on my main blog, I included the following: 

After the high of my last day in engineering, the trauma of socially widespread (endemic is probably more accurate) bigotry and the accumulated trauma of this demanding and often abusive profession hit home in a rush. That wasn’t helped by reading of the appalling attempts by the cismale heterosexual head of Spain’s soccer organisation to cover up his misogyny, which I wrote about here, nor reading this attempted resurrection of two decade old bigotry (which reminds me of the need for what I wrote here and here ... such people have built emotional and mental palaces on a series of false premises, and are so amathiac that they think to change is to threaten to bring down all their goals - whereas the truth is that if they accept reality, grieve the minor changes to their place that are necessary, they will, in fact, wind up with an edifice on solid ground). 

The appalling, misogynistic and sexual nature of the actions by the cismale heterosexual head of Spain’s soccer organisation are - quite rightly - being widely condemned. 

The attempted resurrection of an old evil in my home state does not appear to have the same support for its victims from upstanders as yet, so I will remind all bystanders of the following sayings: 

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

John F. Kennedy 

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

James Baldwin

When evil occurs, it is a test of us all. There are no bystanders or neutrals.

The Voice referendum here in Australia (see the link below) is also showing those who are decent, and those who are evil. 

 

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Finally, remember: we need to be more human being rather than human doing.