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I am not Christian and I normally don't go for books written by Bishops and their likes, but Desmond Tutu was an extraordinary man who worked tirelessly towards peace, tolerance and understanding.
As a important force in the end of Apartheid he was Chairman of the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" that sought to work through past wrongs and find a new way forward in South Africa and wrote a book about his experiences there.
The book of Forgiving
touched me deeply and gave me a new understanding of South Africa Apartheid, Racism and Forgiveness.
The Book of Joy by Desmond Tutu together with the Dalai Lama
is another extraordinary book of him, I want to recommend. It shows a very relatable conversation by two great spiritual leaders about Happiness.
This question is inspired by this news article: St Kilda’s Captain Cook statue doused in red paint in Australia Day protest. I understand that Australia Day offends a lot of people, and that we most definitely do not have a good track record of treatment of our Indigenous people. But it does not help the cause of Indigenous rights to be seen as vandals. Our side needs to improve our argument.
I believe in following the examples set by Martin Luther King and Alan Turing.
- I know that MLK had a disapproval rate of 75% when he was killed. But his strategy was genius - don't be vandals or violent, instead make your victimhood obvious. In doing so, he embarrassed his country into passing civil rights legislation even when they really didn't want to and they didn't really like him. His actions made the incredibly strong argument of "we are innocent victims".
- Alan Turing made groundbreaking innovations in computing that may have been essential in saving his nation in World War II. But his nation still persecuted him for being gay. He let the government have its way, and it led to his depression and suicide. Nowadays, his martyrdom has become an excellent argument and trump card when debating in support of gay rights.
I also want to draw your attention to the United Australia Party. I am most emphatically not a supporter of them. But they have become Australia's biggest political party by grassroots membership - with over 70,000 members by October 2021 according to the Sydney Morning Herald, a centrist newspaper. Their ads are incessant, but they have some excellent scare tactic arguments (so no wonder they are more successful now than during Clive Palmer's previous attempts to win power), such as:
- "Zero emissions, Zero Jobs, and Zero Future. Thanks for Zero, Scomo, Barnaby & Albo." (which is doubly bad because Australia has very poor climate action, and the UAP is claiming that even this is going too far)
- "Stick to Your Promises Scott Morrison" (which rubs in how Scott Morrison was previously against mandatory vac
First, I want to clarify that I KNOW that centrism doesn't mean neutrality and that we actually have opinions and views in social and political things.
The thing is, I really want to know how a centrist views this quote and how can we respond to it.
