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            <title><![CDATA[I am Xenophobic, but don’t want to be.]]></title>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Buddhism, the general goal is to be free from desire. Yet, a desire to be free from desire is still another desire. Taxing yet? Don’t worry, just smile and pretend it will all go away somehow. See! You’re well on your way to enlightenment.</p><p>Or are you?</p><p>A plague of xenophobic leaders seem to have taken over the world at the moment. Trump, Modi,and Hanson are just three.</p><p>Dark days are ahead, for when the land falls into the hands of the wicked, the blindfold is taken off justice, and put on its judges.</p><p>Yet, I am not innocent in this, for xenophobia flows through all of us, even if only in jest. If not your funny accent, your shade of melanin, our age gap, our pay gap, or your weird beliefs, I’m sure i’ll find something I don’t like about you. Because I’m right. And you’re not.</p><p>Or, I can give up my right to be right. And take my first step towards accepting you.</p><p>Right?</p><blockquote>If I say, “I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile”, I will still dread all my sufferings, for I know, You will not hold me innocent.- Job</blockquote><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=dde5874a5590" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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