Mark Bowen: 🪓 Baumol 🪓

so you're prejudging people because of their ethic group. sounds like ethnic prejudice. That's a lose lose for everyone. Ethnicities dissolve and flow, we have japanese hotels that have existed longer than some ethnicities. If we allow ethnic hatred to have a long lifespan, we lose in long term game theory of cooperation between people. I want the world to be beautiful and fluourishing, without hatred or war, and that requires forgiveness. Ethnic prejudice tends toward hatred. I'm not perfect- it's taken me a long time to excise my gut level hatred of people with the last name campbell, because of an overidentification with a self-aggrandizing victim narrative that my ancestral family has held tightly to. That stuff is really sticky, and has to be forgiven intentionally, and single-endedly.

I bought a hat with some Hebrew text on it. In thirty minutes of wearing it in public, I've had two people come up and challenge me about the hat, asking what language it was and then glaring at me when I said Hebrew. I'm not Jewish. I don't like living in a world with ethnic hatred. This is bullshit, and it has to be pushed back against. You can have whatever feelings you want about a war on the other side of the world, but hating someone here because of what language you think they speak is disgusting.

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