On Saturday, January 25, 2025, the first Assembly of the World Humanist Forum will take place online.
At this meeting, various Thematic Tables will be put into dynamics that will have an international and intercultural character.
Context and framework of the Non-Discrimination Roundtable:
The first crucial step in solving any problem is acknowledging that a problem exists in the first place
Discrimination is the greatest threat facing humanity—surpassing even climate change and nuclear weapons—because discriminatory practices have largely fueled these dangers.
It will be interesting to discuss how discrimination works from different points of view, in different continents, and countries, about religions, gender, economics, colors, and cultures.
We can recommend reading Laura Rodriguez’s talk in Moscow
There will be no reconciliation without understanding discrimination, and without reconciliation, there will be no Universal Human Nation.
Slavery is rooted in discrimination.
Colonialism is rooted in discrimination.
WWII was rooted in discrimination.
Donald Trump’s framework is based on discrimination, and millions resonate with it.
The Israel/Palestine conflict is also based on mutual discrimination, dating back millennia.
The issue of migration is founded on discrimination.
Perhaps the entire logic of our economic system is based on discrimination.
Isn’t Marxism fundamentally about the poor being discriminated against by the elite?
Why does the Catholic Church not recognize women as priests?
When did discrimination start? Where? Why? How did it scale? What can replace it? Is there any culture today that doesn’t discriminate? What is this underlying “register”—the register of the discriminator and the register of the discriminated?
If you ask anyone, they will likely say they don’t discriminate, and that no one is discriminating against anyone.
Yet we face a global epidemic of discrimination without a working vaccine.
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Please, remember to register and join us on Saturday
