Say No to Racism- And Divisive Politics on It | By Vikrant Sharma
Say No to Racism- And Divisive Politics on It By Vikrant Sharma Founder-Editor, The Global Telescope There’s a general tendency in our society to term every divisive issue into a matter of the political left or the political right. This is, of course, accentuated in the modern world by the echo chambers that we inhabit on social media. If I follow a few left-leaning political writers, I will be recommended posts that describe how Brexit is going to cause a meteorite crash that will kill humans quicker than dinosaurs. If I follow a few right-leaning journalists, social media algorithms will push on me posts that claim socialists are planning to take over the world with a spear in one hand and a copy of Marx in the other. All of this is, of course, a load of biased bollocks. More often than not, however, I will believe what I am shown. Racism is not a new thing. It has existed in many different forms for centuries. From the depiction of Native Americans as savages and the brutal discrimi...