Sean Lennon slammed “morality policing” in a meandering Twitter tirade on Sunday night time.
The son of Beatle John Lennon and Japanese-born artist Yoko Ono wrote that “after I was younger ppl used to say racist s–t about Asians round me on a regular basis after which be like ‘Oh sorry! However you’re not reeeally Asian so…’ and I believe they sincerely thought that will make me really feel higher.”
Lennon defined that he grew up in an period of “zero political correctness” and, apparently has come to imagine the idea has “failed” to result in a greater society and even made “issues worse by creating greater unexpected issues.
“‘The highway to hell is paved w good intentions,’ he wrote, quoting Samuel Johnson. “We’ve been making an attempt this sort of morality policing for some time now & I might posit issues are arguably getting worse. Race relations appear to be in the center of a ‘two steps again’ second.”
The 44-year-old musician, whose mom was the goal of horrendous anti-Asian venom over time, went onto clarify that his DMs have “by no means been extra full of weird WWII-era bulls–t (like chink and jap, or no matter).”
He continued: “I’m very unhappy that I really feel like I’ve to say the next however right here goes: Asians are usually not the issue. Blacks are usually not the issue. Jews are usually not the issue. And sure, Whites are usually not the issue both. No race or tradition is ‘the issue,” he theorized.
Relatively, the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger musician argued that there’s an “EQUAL distribution of s–tty ppl and good ppl in EVERY human inhabitants. Most are good, some aren’t nice, and a really small quantity are scientific sociopaths you completely must keep away from.
“Once I grew up New York really felt like a melting pot,” Lennon, who grew up on the Higher West Aspect in the Dakota Constructing, wrote. “It wasn’t excellent, however ppl didn’t self-segregate alongside tribal strains to the diploma that I’m seeing right now. There’s something fallacious with the technique and route we now have chosen, in academia, in politics, and elsewhere.”
Lennon believes that we “ought to test our technique if we’re not getting the outcomes we meant. I don’t know what the answer is, however I think that over-sensitizing ppl to arbitrary traits like pores and skin color could also be doing extra hurt than good.
“I don’t typically speak about race, particularly my very own, as a result of I really feel consideration is like water in a backyard: no matter you give it to will develop,” he added earlier than noting he hoped his missive doesn’t ignite some sort of “soften down.”
“Okay that’s it,” he signed off. “Peace and Like to all. I imply it.”
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