Kennedy libr ary website: “One of President Kennedy’s favorite quotations was based upon an interpretation of Dante’s Inferno. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”Īccording to the John F. He added, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. used a variation of the quote ( “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”). This quotation was frequently used by President Kennedy to make the point that on important moral issue it is wrong to sit on the fence and refuse to take a side.
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Neutrality is a colonial tool that has been built to keep us from speaking the truth. There need not be a fact-value split when our values stem from hard facts.Īs those invested in current events, we should note that bias is the product of our objective reading of the politically constructed reality that has been built. Often times, we fail to see that neutrality and objectivity are two different levels of analysis. We are to treat our facts, what we know to be truth, as another viewpoint to be equally balanced against another. That way, we can continue the same narrative used by colonizers that makes subjugation sensible or acceptable, perpetuating a level of white supremacist domination by reproducing a tired trope that there is space to remain neutral. That way, we can continue business as usual.
That way, we can avoid the vague discomfort of acknowledging modern-day oppression both within our borders and abroad. Our only way to be heard and taken seriously by (for a lack of a better term) the White Man is to remain politically neutral to injustice. Methodological imperialism has created an artificial “zero point” from which we dare not depart in our analyses or face rejection for not maintaining enough “critical distance.”Ĭritical and emotional distance from occupation, massacres, the stripping of our dignity, black genocide, usurpation of land and rights is our zero point of “balanced” analysis and reasoning. To my fellow political observers, analysts, scholars and human beings who like to know what is happening in our world: There is an increasingly apparent idea that, in order to be considered “credible” in our political analysis, we must be unbiased and/or neutral. Jordan Clark, '14, Guest Writer | February 13, 2015
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