Don’t Judge People By The Worst of Their Gender, Race, or Religion

Jonathan Morris Schwartz
3 min readSep 5, 2024

Not all men, not all blacks, not all Christians, not all Jews…how do we tear down bigotry, hatred, misogyny, and racism without demonizing an entire gender, race, or religion?

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Men have ruled the world for hundreds of years and therefore it’s time for women to break down historic, well-entrenched, male entitlement.

Who can argue with that?

Racism was pervasive from slavery to Jim Crow and continues to this day as it relates to housing, jobs, and economic growth, and it’s time for these — sometimes subtle — forms of discrimination to end.

No problem, right?

Some Christians and Jews are falsely labeled as extremists and are blamed for violence when the whole point of religion is to foster peace, love, and community….it’s time to stop judging people who believe differently than we do.

Agreed?

So how do we separate the good guys from the bad guys?

We can’t just by looking at them.

Maybe it’s impossible to separate those who’ve learned their lessons and want to live in a world of equality and fairness, from those who haven’t.

If we agree it’s not possible to eliminate the patriarchy, racism, or religious…

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Jonathan Morris Schwartz

Jonathan Morris Schwartz is a speech-language pathologist writing about human relationships, love, politics, philosophy, and consciousness.