Always Be Fair
August 28th, 2020 by G.
A man was sobbing by the side of the road. A passerby stopped and listened to him and hugged him. The passerby said, “I care for you. I feel sorry for you. But there are others out there suffering as much if not more, and I want to make it clear that I care just as much and feel just as sorry for them.”
A woman
August 28, 2020
Considering that this week is the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, I found this is poor taste.
More and more lately I have noticed the ugly disconnect between the actual teachings of the Church regarding men and women – as taught by General Authorities in General Conference and in Church magazines such as the Ensign – and the things that appear on this blog. It makes the Church look really good and it makes JG look less so.
Rozy
August 28, 2020
I don’t agree with “A woman”. The post reminds me of a evening at Mutual (in the olden days). I arrived feeling low and discouraged by whatever trials and tribulations I had experienced at school that day. My teacher was less than sympathetic accusing me of making a mountain out of a molehill. She, on the other hand, had spent the day with a friend dying of cancer and nothing I’d experienced was as bad as that. WOW! I promised myself that I’d try my best to be understanding and empathetic to others without telling them how much worse someone else had it. Whatever trial someone is going through it is huge and hard to that person; comparisons are worthless.
Thanks for sharing, I like your anecdote.
Momof6
August 28, 2020
G, so you’re not saying that All Lives Matter, then?
G.
August 28, 2020
A Woman,
We are very much pro woman and anti-feminist.
We are not the official church and not trying to model the tone and content and limitations of official Church communications. Which is great, because it means you are free to disagree with us.
We’re also, I hasten to add, not making any particular effort to oppose the church on anything either. This is a home for faithful latter-day Saint Christians and the disagreements on tone, emphasis, or even content should be the kinds of disagreements that faithful latter day Saint Christians can have. Although, as you are no doubt aware, the ones who are most comfortable here are the ones who are just a little bit on the outs with modernity.
We value your participation in the past, appreciate your current comments, and will be grateful for whatever participation you think suitable in the future.
G.
August 28, 2020
MomofSeis,
That’s a pretty smart connection you made. I was not the point I was intending to make specifically. But it occurred to me and I was wondering how I would respond.
One, well, it helps you have a little empathy with the sincere and not super informed average BLM supporter. If the facts were as they think they are, this little parable helps you understand why it would be offensive to say something innocuous like all lives matter.
Two, the main distinction I see though is that the BLM stuff is really about the media/social media creating a simulacra of the man in the path mentioned in the parable above. If Providence puts someone along your way, it really is okay and I would say even mandatory to care more about them and their plight than other remote people who might be similarly situated. What media emphasis does is create a sort of fake immediacy as if someone were faux in your path.
Bookslinger
August 28, 2020
The classic line: “I lamented that I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet.”
Modern line: “First world problems.”
What I heard as a kid in the 1960’s: “Eat your brussel sprouts. There are millions of starving kids in China.”