'What if I stepped into my own office and there was Tucker Carlson, praying? What would I have done?'
! Sometimes, in his certainty of rectitude, he asks questions that actually matter — or would matter if they were asked with any sort of honesty. The above quote, blathered on his news show, recently started flickering again in my brain, when I read about a Florida teacher who was fired after sarcastically interrupting the
But there is a much larger answer as well — a “trans-political” answer, you might say. Which is to say, it’s not simple. The true believers who hate diversity do so because it’s an inconvenience, interrupting their certainty that what they believe, religiously, socially or politically, is The Truth . If that’s the lie you’re stuck in, then of course diversity is infuriating; it’s forced tolerance, a.k.a., political correctness.
Religions, for instance, are more than just rituals and platitudes — solid certainties, to be swallowed whole or contemptuously rejected. Considering that the religious conflict in question happened at an educational institution, what if . . .I immediately shrug my shoulders. In no way do I mean this in a simplistic sense. All I’m saying is that life itself is an endless learning opportunity. And learning should never stop.
What if that was the spirit in which the teacher had stepped, surprisingly, into the room where Muslim students were praying? It might have seemed like a sudden, educational moment — even if it was also a shock and an inconvenience. Could some sharing have occurred? This is who I am. This is who you are. Sharing begins with respect for the others.
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