{"id":16484,"date":"2015-02-07T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T03:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=16484"},"modified":"2022-11-04T23:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:19:23","slug":"generalisation-wandering-thought-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2015\/02\/generalisation-wandering-thought-208\/","title":{"rendered":"Generalisation: Wandering Thought #208"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"fbPhotoPageCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*G&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:45}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16485\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/208-218x300.jpg?resize=218%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/208.jpg?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/208.jpg?resize=70%2C96&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/208.jpg?w=570&amp;ssl=1 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/>Wandering Thought #208: Generalisation<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"fbPhotoPageCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*G&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:45}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">It takes only a single gesture of unconditoned good will from one of the kind of persons we habitually demonise, to realise our generalisations leading to racism, ageism, sexism, speciesism and all other unfair &#8216;isms&#8217; do not really make sense. At the macro level, if we are &#8216;ist&#8217; in any of the &#8216;isms&#8217; above, we should make a point to understand &#8216;the others&#8217; mo<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">re, to more clearly see that we are all not that different after all, other than being victims and victimisers with our various &#8216;isms&#8217;. At the micro level, we should further understand the individuals we demonise too, for if we do not make peace with one another, how do we create world peace?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering Thought #208: Generalisation It takes only a single gesture of unconditoned good will from one of the kind of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[847],"class_list":["post-16484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-wandering-thought","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}