#universalism — Public Fediverse posts

The Early #Jewish Anti-Zionists You Might Not Know About

https://youtube.com/shorts/jmACuRVMn-c?is=Rtr-IVZSBJ_F-52U

#bundists
#antizionism is obviously not the same as #antisemitism
Those who attack #universalism attack #humanrights and even #democracy !

In SERRC Mark West reviews Omri Boehm's book on Radical Universalism,

https://social-epistemology.com/2026/02/25/radical-universalism-a-review-mark-d-west/

#universalism #philosophy #nationalism #civilization #humanrights #human #politics #people #morality #ethics #enlightenment #radical #rights #left #review #serrc #identity #rules

"If politics is the art of negotiating differences–and, ideally, supporting and multiplying them–under a common rule, then the work before us is to renovate the “common”: the infrastructures through which we meet, rely on, and matter to one another. This political labor prioritizes building over branding, reciprocity over performance, and the ethical experience of reciprocally caring for one another over the satisfactions of solipsistic online expression, newspaper columns, or podcasts.

To beat Trumpism, we must name the breakdown of democracy that has already transpired over decades of neoliberal disinvestment from the commons and from care it supports. And for those in positions of power who oversaw the breakdown and whose careers and bank accounts benefited from it, they should take responsibility for the reality they’ve wrought.

Then let us treat politics not as civility training but as the work of caring for democracy: the deliberate construction of public, participatory systems of care that give our talk of community actual substance. That means Medicare for All–and a national community care worker system that keeps people from needing doctors and hospitals in the first place. It means universal childcare–and the well-paid neighborhood jobs and safe spaces to enable it. It means housing as a fundamental right–and the support teams that get and keep people stably housed.

It means regarding racial, gender, and religious differences not as inconveniences to be tolerated but as the very lifeblood of democracy and the wellspring of its essential creativity. It means moving resources from punishment to care and proving, block by block, that safety is a function of belonging and caregiving, not of policing or surveillance."

https://www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-culture-wars-nor-big-tents-will-save-american-democracy/

#USA #Democracy #Democrats #DemocraticParty #PublicGoods #Universalism

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Strange! that no one has ever been persecuted by the church for believing God bad, while hundreds of millions have been destroyed for thinking him good. The orthodox church never will forgive the Universalist for saying “God is love.” It has always been considered as one of the very highest evidences of true and undefiled religion to insist that all men, women and children deserve eternal damnation. It has always been heresy to say, “God will at last save all.”

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #damnation #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinemercy #divineplan #eternalpunishment #God #heresy #love #orthodoxy #religiouspersecution #salvation #universalism

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

   While utterly discarding all creeds, and denying the truth of all religions, there is neither in my heart nor upon my lips a sneer for the hopeful, loving and tender souls who believe that from all this discord will result a perfect harmony, that every evil will in some mysterious way become a good, and that above and over all there is a being who, in some way, will reclaim and glorify every one of the children of men.
   But for those who heartlessly try to prove that salvation is almost impossible, that damnation is almost certain, that the highway of the universe leads to hell, who fill life with fear and death with horror, who curse the cradle and mock the tomb, it is impossible to entertain other than feelings of pity, contempt and scorn.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

More info about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #RobertIngersoll #atheist #believers #Christianity #damnation #fear #hell #hope #meaningoflife #omnibenevolence #order #redemption #salvation #tolerance #universalism

CONFESSIONALISM WITHOUT (EVERLASTING) ANATHEMAS — Earth and Altar
https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts/di5uidevw1foo3ndtjkbwjwjv5qwht
"This essay explores how Episcopalians—and other Anglicans—can boldly reclaim a robust confessional identity grounded not in exclusion or fear, but in the enduring trust that God’s universal mercy will ultimately redeem everyone." #episcopal #anglican #universalism

Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

For the last time, about ”Abundance”..

It doesn’t start with economic policies, grand business projects or fat pocketbooks for millionaire investors.
It starts with universal values of everyone being DESERVING of the same standard of living.
It starts with RIDDING OURSELVES OF EXCUSES for invalidating a person, and stopping the continous thinning of the circle of those consired worthy.

Now shut up about trying to make it happen without changing ourselves.
#abundance #economics #universalism

These are powerful and wise words for those of us struggling with idealism in this immoral and evil world.

Learn "How to Have an Enemy".

Take a few minutes to listen. You won't be sorry.

#spirituality #faith #religion #humanism #unitarian #universalism

https://www.uuworld.org/articles/2024-skinner-sermon-award-molly-housh-gordon

#Universalism Makes #God The Worst #Sadist

Even Universalism can't get The #TribalWar #godofAbraham off the hook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzrqpVC88MU

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / # #medicalaid / #universalism / #portrait

„A Palestinian doctor in Israel treats people on both sides of the conflict.“

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/16/doctor-without-borders

"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-tracker

an article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" https://www.natashadowschull.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SocialResearch-2019.pdf

#concentration #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #selfRegulation #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #selfConfidence #dataDon #Schüll #quotes

‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’

an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/

#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon

"There is a way to set up your fiscal and welfare institutions that avoids both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses, though this approach is rarely mentioned in the US policy discourse. The solution has three pieces to it:

- Tax all income personally. In our current system, Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are assessed on each individual’s personal income while the federal income tax is assessed on tax units that combine spousal income and then apply different rates based on whether an individual is filing singly, jointly, or as a single parent. We should change the federal income tax so that it is assessed on each individual’s personal income just like Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are. This would make it so that tax situations do not change based on marriage.

- Provide welfare benefits personally. Welfare benefit eligibility should also be based on the circumstances of specific individuals not families. Unemployed people should get unemployment benefits regardless of how much money others in their family or household earn. The same for disabled people, elderly people, children, and so on. Some of our benefits already work like this, but others do not. By providing benefits to individuals based on their personal circumstances, you make it so that their benefit situations do not change based on marriage.

- Eliminate means tests. Welfare benefit eligibility and levels should be based on an individual’s current status (e.g., whether they are unemployed, disabled, on leave, a student) and, for income-smoothing benefits, their prior earnings. As with (2), this ensures that family composition does not end up affecting benefit eligibility.

Of course, this just describes the ideal form of the universal social democratic welfare state. This should come as no surprise."

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/universalism-welfare-states-marriage-medicaid

#USA #WelfareState #Universalism #Medicaid #SocialDemocracy

Intelligent individuals tend to value self-directedness and benevolence, study finds https://www.psypost.org/intelligent-individuals-tend-to-value-self-directedness-and-benevolence-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Intelligence #SelfDirectedness #Benevolence #Universalism #Psychology

"Democratic and progressive messaging to men will never go anywhere as long as it starts from the assumption that being a man is always a privilege and being a woman always makes you disadvantaged.

There are times when that is true, but there are times when that isn’t.

Men disproportionately suffer from all kinds of problems at much higher rates than women do. But progressives, who run the Democratic Party’s approach to social-culture issues, rarely acknowledge that. To them, men are simply there to be lectured about how they should do more for women.

Sure, a lot of men mistreat women (like Emhoff). Many men take our their frustrations in unhealthy and self-defeating ways. And the Democratic Party has played a real role in advancing opportunities for women and making sure that their rights are protected.

But you can do all that and not strip men of their humanity by constantly making demands of them but never listening to their needs."

https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/democrats-need-to-realize-its-not

#USA #Misandry #Sexism #DemocraticParty #Universalism #IdentityPolitics #Progressivism #Liberals

Be wary of moral beauty 🧵

#politicalPhilosophy #righteous #righteousness #moralBeauty #moralGround #highGround #idealism #utopia #vertue #justness #morals #morality #satisfaction #fulfilment #fulfillment #permeation #infusion #earnest #serious #liberals #conservatism #fragility #appropriate #correct #suitable #vote #politics #philosophy #power #universalism #goodness #coloniality #SpotAndDiscard

"Postwar European education campaigns coded #Europe as both white and raceless, Christian and secular."

Emily #Marker draws from her work on the French #education system to discuss #race and #universalism: https://tocqueville21.com/books/authors-response-black-france-white-europe-emily-marker/

#book #whiteness #coloniality #meritocracy #feminisms #decoloniality #antiRacism #FRPol #academy #university #integration #colorblindness #democratisation #Europeanness
#livre #racialisation #decoloniale #antiracisme #blanchité #racismeSystémique #colonialité #méritocratie #lectureDécoloniale #islamogauchisme #France #décolonisation