The liberal lynch mob

Agreed with every bit of it – a comprehensive way to shut up those who think they can say anything about us. excellent.Recommend

But we adore our black sheeps. We call them maulanas, we call them mujahids.
Hey I bet the people hitting and watching were all fasting to curb their Shaitan. Sorry guys you are the demons.Recommend

great article. We need more people like you.Recommend

Beautifully written. 100% agree.Recommend

let me agree with Mahreen, in fact majority of us is peace loving and loyal to law of humanity and country as well but we are suppressed by a corrupt and prejudice minority. whatever is the case we should confess that we are responsible to make this minority as representative of us.
thanks Mahreen, you just encourage me to see a positive face of picture.Recommend

Why are we defending ourselves as Pakistanis? Where was this patriotism when the murders were taking place?
Is it the first one of its kind? No.
People are too scared to walk on the streets fearing it will be them in the next random shooting, suicide bombing, or just getting killed by an angry mob.
Where is the law placed? Where are the Human Rights? Or do we not need them because we are fanatics?
I am ashamed to be a Pakistani and agree with Fulton, I don’t find the need of defending an article. We are needed to be reminded that this behavior is unacceptable.Recommend

@ Zoya Sameen
The writer is a Harvard Graduate. I am pretty sure she knows what she is talking but.
For everyone else, how come we never talk about Robert Pickton, A Canadian, who raped and then murdered around 150 women.
How about people like the Virginia Tech guy who killed 33 people in a shooting spree.
There are tonnes of examples of western barbarianism, you just need to research it. And for the past 50 years America has been intruding countries and killing thousands of innocent people and carpet bombing places. very civilised eh !
And yea if you run into a native red indian, ask them what the Brits did to them. Literally slaughtered masses and masses of people.

For God’s sake drop the self pity. We are civilised people, dont extrapolite this issue and draw conclusions from it about all of Pakistan, beginning from 1947 uptil now.

And Zoya, most history books are tainted, the writers put down what favours their point of view and earns them big bucks. you want real history lessons ? sit down with someone who witnessed it all, like your grandfather or something. They’ll tell you the truth.Recommend

@junaid hafeez
You’re the one sounding dogmatic. And how do you define right-wing? Anyone who defends Pakistan is automatically labelled right wing – if you defend Islam then you are labelled an extremist.
Superb article – great work. Keep it up.Recommend

Our cricket team have yet again delivered to us the pride and joy we have yearned for at a time of need. Mehreen, I read the first paragraph and after the events unfolding in the UK regarding our beloved cricket team, who represent us at the highest level on the international platform, I did not feel compelled to read anymore.

You are fooling yourself and the readers. Pakistan requires a revolution and the people of Pakistan must begin by criticising what is wrong; God on mouth and evil at heart will not do anymore. From the youngest and poorest to the eldest and wealthiest, PAKISTANIS CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Think about what YOU are doing for YOUR country and not what OTHERS are doing or not doing. This is the difference between a failing nation and one that is prospering.Recommend

Why should we care what rest of the world does? Typical Pakistani way of escaping self accountability.Recommend

It is not for anyone to point out the problems and highlight our weaknesses every single day in an article in the newspaper, delighted to have done something constructive in life, to have evoked a sense of responsibility in your people. If these articles were written to straighten out “the mob” standing by and watching the brutal lynching of those two young boys then just the fact that it was written here, at the Express Tribune negates that very purpose. To reach out to the masses of Pakistan, go out on the streets and talk!!! Writing and reading is an idea our developing nation still hasn’t caught its head around. So appealing to the masses with a well structured article lecturing the masses on their lax attitude, in English might I add, is not for the masses at all! We are all well aware of the state our country is in and we do not expect to gain some sort of sympathy but being reprimanded with insults every day is not going to help fix this attitude either, go down and get your hands dirty or shut up & keep staring! It is the duty of each and every one of us to ‘help’ the country in its time of need and I assure you this verbal lynching is doing no such thing. This ongoing charade of degrading the nation that feeds you is as brutal a betrayal as the lynching of those two boys, and if someone sees that and is brave enough to stand up and advocate her nations vulnerable state then I Salute her.Recommend

Brilliant article.
This incident seems to lead a lot of people to denounce Pakistan and all that it stands for (unless I’m mistaken and its a ritual banter for them after every incident). We have a problem here, I disagree with anyone cursing the country. If I curse it along with you, I’ll be part of another albeit bigger angry mob who has no solution and wants to vent its anger somewhere. So there you guys are, with a stick, lynching Pakistan. Whats next? A muslim commits a crime and we’ll be back at it, ‘ashamed to be muslim’.
Then we can seek out more trash for public self-humiliation. The people seem to love it and it gets more approval these days.
As far as how different are we from other nations goes, read up the American civil war, and how half their nation actually fought to continue slavery. How long did it take from slavery to the first black being allowed on a public bus? The French revolution, where people’s throats were slit by mobs if the cloth they were wearing was found embroidered. I’m not justifying the sialkot acts. I’m telling you this because, we’re still a lot better off and have a living breathing conscience and there’s hope.Recommend

Excellent article Mehreen…. feels good to know that we still have some people in this country who speak up and speak up with facts and care enough to fight back when filth against the country is published!
thumbs up!!Recommend

Finally someone spoke up for the ‘good’ of the few rather than the ‘bad’ of the many. What people need to remember is that there are a few big fishes in the pond that are making the entire water dirty.We need to be positive,be aware and know that even if our past is full of darkness and our hearts full of regrets, we need to move on and reinvent our future.very well written Mahreen Khan.Recommend

ts nice to live in Utopia, but just look at the Pakistan cricket team honey! We constantly surprise ourselves by attaining new lows! And then vehmently ignore the reality with our ‘optimism’. Pakistan is neither the first nor the last nation gone wrong, but denying that it has gone wrong is as self destructive and delusional as is self pity and self loathing. Besides in a democratic Pakistan people should have the gutts to express view points without judging or being judged.Recommend

There are good people and bad ones too.. everywhere in this world. .I dont think there’s any point in arguing about that although at the same time ,its not wrong to oppose the act of assuminhg as to what kind of people pakistanis are just on the basis of what a mob of people did out there.
But what is needed of all the pakistanis is to actually rise against this barbarity. .and that can never be done just by telling how sorry you are or how horrible you think this incident was. .it can actually be done by choosing those people to be in power who can actually prevent any such thing happening in the country and even if it does happen,can provide justice to those who suffer and punish the wrongdoers in such a way that anything of this kind is prevented and taken care of in the future. ..and that power rests and will always do with the people. .its just about using it at the right time in the right way. .Recommend

@Umar farooq – “since you are a harvard graduate you have a lot in common with the average pakistani” – George Fulton is an Englishman and Fassi is an Oxford Graduate working for the british council – so Umar your point is just irrelevant.Recommend

It’s amazing how quickly Pakistanis will believe the worst about their own. The same people who claim to be the liberal ones are now gloating over the cricket scandal. That means you dont have any sincerity for Pakistan.Recommend

I think you missed the point of those authors …we always have some excuse what we did and never accepted our mistakes…..how long we will be lying to our selves? how long we will be closing our eyes by looking at problems…some day we need to address them……Recommend

Thank you so much for writing this. As this intellectual mob needs to be countered.Recommend

@Hassan Manzar – totally agree with your points.

Excellent article – no matter how well intentioned the two guys were they were displaying racist reasoning and used abusive language for a nation. The point about how black people were subjected to the same treatment is not tackled by any of fassi and george’s defenders. No matter what the ills in our society NO ONE has the righ to demean our nation or country. Criticism is NOT the same as abuse and racial stereotyping.Recommend

To say the least, Sialkot incident has been condemned by every individual and justice would surely emerge as victorious in this particular case. But a more potent question that requires us to pause and ponder is whether other incidents of similar or less guresome nature “were” or “are” or “will be” given the same importance by media, government and people? In the present case, the only difference that I find between Pakistani Society and a Western one is that if the similar lynching were being carried out in public in any country of the West no one would have interfered or stayed there. The public standing aside was not aware of the real situation. I personally fix the entire responsibility on the Police which not only acted as a silent spectator but also gave a misleading impression to the public standign there that whatever was going on was under their supervision.Western media has vested interests as it links every such incident with the war on terror, that is awful!Recommend

interesting read “IN DEFENSE OF THE SIALKOT MOB”

http://amaurosis-fugax.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-defense-of-sialkot-mob.htmlRecommend

Thank you for your this reply to the much hurting article by george. we must resist and marginalize these new generation of writers which in order to gain cheap popularity can write stupid things and most of our – too much impressed from the western criticism – friends who can not bother to think themselves immediately start appreciating these material. we need people like mahreen khan who should address those writers and educate our people who are getting fond of these low class writers.Recommend

Mahreen, you have analysed correctly. Should Americans be called a nation of assassins, because they killed two of their Presidents (Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln) and attempts on Reagan etc…Americans killed a few millions of Red Indians….. And recently In America they had campus shoot outs, and have we forgotten…… Oklahoma Bombing etc etc etc . No we do not call Americans as a nation of murderers because they realise and condemn all that I have narrated. In the way to improve and be better, first thing is one has to realise and condemn the bad. That National remorse was the realisation and becoming a better people is round the corner……Recommend

“Using the horrific Sialkot killings, these “western, liberal” columnists have labelled all Pakistanis as “degenerates” and “barbaric”, hurling abusive and shameful generalisations to justify a verbal lynching of Pakistan, its culture and people.”

I am delighted that your experience from living and educating in the West like myself has widen your horizons to see beyond the perspectives of some very narrow minded Western Liberals that are spreading the paranoia of Pakistan’s Failure as a Nation and Humans. I live in London, a city known for its “Sophistication”, “Civilization” and “Humanitarian Acts”, yet only I as a citizen know the murky, dirty facts about the city of “BIG BEN TOWER”. Some may find this very amusing but even us Londoners don’t have immunity against violent acts of crime committed by the commoners, we also have youth killing and recording their victims and the Police not ever being where they need to be. At least in Pakistan a murderer is occasionally caught and sentenced to death. Here in the UK, the home of “Human Rights”, an eighteen month old known as Baby P, was repeatedly battered, boxed and abused until each bone in his body was broken, and eventually killed after weeks of abuse from his keepers. The killers sentenced for two and a half years and a little community service. Not far from where I work, a boy was stabbed by a youth mob, in broad daylight, for no apparent reason, the killer; a seventeen year old caught and transferred to juvenile jail. There have been fourteen incidents of youth killing and mobile video recording in the span on one week, right in the heart of the Capital of England. These killings do not include cannibalism, drug crimes, bank frauds, robberies, battering of elderlies and the vulnerable members of society for their belongings, car theft, family feuds, rape and kidnapping that seems to be in the local news each week. It is a jungle out here, but the tale of these internal crimes and warfare never reach the headlines of the National papers, let alone the international Media. The people of this country, don’t bat an eyelid over these stories, look at the reaction of Pakistani nations, it’s a blessing. We need more columnists that can write as you have so than the reader may establish, be that as it may, their sanity is still intact.Recommend

Absolutely wnderful analysis. This is very very sharp thinking and eloquently expressed article. The best I have read on Express Tribune so far Kudos t the author!Recommend

It is an interesting piece of article. Being righteously affronted by one piece of writing is a bit immature, especially if it comes from a legally educated person. Your arguments that men of any ethnicity, nationality and religion can behave barbarically is acceptable. But when you talk about Pakistan, why is it that you compare ethnic cleansing in Pakistan with what happened to people of Palestine and Israel or for that matter what occurred in Gujarat? You should confine yourself with what happens in Pakistan? why are you justifying what happens in your country by comparing it to what happens elsewhere? There is a lot that can be said about the atrocities that have been inflicted upon Hindus, Christians and members of other religion by Islamic Nations. Why is it that I never see a Muslim stand up and protest against killings of non-Muslims by Muslims anywhere? I honestly am at a loss to understand why Blasphemy laws, still continue to be applied in Pakistan and please do not say that these laws have any other purpose barring the persecution of Non-Muslims, including Ahmadis & condoning their lynching at the hands of the righteous Muslims. If you want the world to have empathy and sympathy for Muslims then equally Muslims need to exhibit the same vis-a-vis people of other religions. If you want to change your country and its citizens for the better then I would suggest that you have both heart and conscience to honestly analyse the plague that hounds the Pakistani society, the religious propaganda perpetuated by the state and clerics..You need to see the problem for what it is, Warts and all. You cannot selectively choose to suit your affronted nationalistic emotions.Recommend

Excellent Mahreen. I didnt give much attention to the columns, full of distorted facts, of these sadists. But what was pinching for me is the response of readers to that columns. Alas! when we will come out of inferiority complex?Recommend

how about a little less comparison of depraved behaviour, and just a bit more social introspection. Just b/c the jews, the hutus and tutsis did it doesn’t make it any more acceptable. We need to stop deflecting, and apologizing for the actions of sialkot and start fixing the underlying disfunctions of our society. to say that it was done to us before partition doesn’t make it justified or take the blame of us.for the very reason that it was done to us, we should never do it to each other.
I am sorry an exceptionally purile and simplistic take on things.Recommend

Most of the Posts as comments especially by those who are continuosly cursing and bashing Pakistan and behvior of our people in releavnce to Islam are as a matter of fact not doing so because they hate and condemn that Lynching act but basically they are doing so beacuse they are taking this whole event as an easy excuse and so convenient an opportunity to vent out their own personal hidden hatered and nauseating dispel against Pakistan and also against Islam. language and wordings of most of the posts portraying their displeasure not on the actual incident but they are lashing on merely three words Pakistan Pakistani and Muslim. They are trying to tell us As if this country Pakistan was not supposed to be made for living of Humans but for living of Angels and Messihaas. Those cynical and sick minds are completly ignoring the fact that PAKISTAN is a part of world community on the very same earth and does’nt exist in isloation somewhere in skys. Like any other country and people Pakistan and Pakistani is living equally in the same natural influence and process of Virtue & Vice.
My Friends, You dont measure countries and people merely by their Achievements and behavior But to a greater extent by their Potential. Potential is Something Possible but not yet as Actual. People blessed with Virtue and with Education Knowledge Skills and wisdom are there in society with the Possibility to make it Actual. People in Vice, Ignorants and ills in Society are like Weed and Weed you know is a useless plant that spoils the soil but still it’s green, flowery and colorfull. I think no matter how wild it is but Weed still is a natural plant, Its only that the Virtue of weed is not yet discovered. Realy good Gardeners always try to convert the soil of weeds into plants of Roses and Dasies. Same is the role Wise people in society. But Dilemma of our educated class is that they consider themselves as Elits of society rathet than as Care Takers. In self pride of their education, knowledge, awareness and wisdom they disconnect themselves from their origin. One of my elder used to tell me: In Pakistan every person having a Car does’nt know how to drive, Every person who has the money does’nt know how to spend and that everyone who so calling himself Educated does’nt know how to apply that education. Simply Capitalising your ownselves on that Education is not the real application of Education and Wisdom that you actually owe to your own society your country and your people.Recommend

Brilliant column Mahreen.

You highlighted the vilification of Pakistan, Pakistanis and all things Pakistanis by a section of Pakistanis very aptly named the ‘liberal lynch mob’, and their Western counterparts, as part of a ‘lunch mob mentality of praying on the weak’, perfectly.

That is precisely what it is – most Western commentators find all sorts of nauseating excuses for the brutal actions of States like Israel, US and India, while denigrating weaker States in the developing world with whom their nations do not have great long term economic or strategic interests.Recommend

Above article reflects a benchmark in quality writing. It is the evidence that when you really speak the voice of your people, and good people, then they generously admire you. I’m one among the army of your admirers :)Recommend

Bravo.Recommend

Mehreen, having Pakistanis bury their heads in the sand is not going to solve any problems – its time Pakistanis took charge of their own futures by taking responsibility for themselves and their own actionsRecommend

MS KHAN
God bless you. You have made absolutly a right and positive use of your personal education wisdom and enlightened mind. These are the times that try human souls. God adjudges the value of human souls in such moments of crises no matter how prolonged they are. Sunshine patriots fueled with bitterness will abondon to shrink from the services of their country but those who keep themselves composed enough to stand afirm on their soil will deserve the love and thanx of their people. Ms. Khan, Cherish we must to our people not for their ability to comfort and amuse us but for our own ability to comfort and amuse them. Those big mouths with poisnous tongues must abondon this country for the country’s sake. So that all those left bhind can say to our soil..”Our Grief Our Smile always begin in your face, my homeland”Recommend

Great effort by the author, very patriotic but denying the truth. I would not agree totally with Fasi or Mr. Fulton but I do understand why they have been so critical about the Sialkot mob murder. Most of us, before this accident, defended the Pakistan nation as being a victim to generalization which was based on the few occasions and few groups of people, but the Sialkot incident proved that the generalization about Pakistani nation being barbaric, brutal and most of all ignorant and illiterate people is correct. We saw common people beating those kids to death with our law standing their like a total stooge, if that’s not enough I don’t think we can ever be a civilized nation. It is about time we realize that we need major changes in our society and that can’t be done without articles from such authors, not that I praise the articles or the author but we do need them now. I am sure I can say this to be true that 99% of Pakistani would not want their children to grow up in this country and 90% of those who have lived here, spent their childhood in Pakistan too would want to get out of this country.
The only criticism I have on this article is that the Author is trying to tell us that everything is alright and will become better but I and many of Pakistani don’t think this will happen. The situation is getting worse day by day. First it used to be foreign policies of western countries hurting this nation, than came the Taliban (now a synonym of terrorist), still we had hope as these were not from among us, but after watching how those 2 brothers were killed by we as a nation I don’t think something better can happen to this nation in the future, unless we take this matter so seriously and look at it the way Fasi and Fulton have. Once again I am not saying that we have to agree with what they wrote, leave alone praising them but we have to agree that we as a nation needed that slap.Recommend

Very well said. Bravo !Recommend

Wellwritten article. yes, they were gross over generalizations but havent we always given everybody the perfect opportunity to verbally flay us on the international stage. Hell, this time we gave ourselves an opportunity to spit on ourselves. Foreign agendas are there, they will always be; but every country has its own share of crap ! Guess what , so do we ! We need to pick ourselves up (stop begging from everyone), dust our pants (remove vermin that we call our leaders) and start walking !!

FarooqiRecommend

Finally a sensible and articulate response to a very “arrogant” and confused article by Mr. Zaka! Great job Mehreen!

While I believe everybody has a right to their opinion but I am beginning to get tired of this shaming/blaming game where the “people” of Pakistan are bashed constantly! Where we are constantly told to be ashamed of ourselves…and sometimes by people who have yet to prove themselves to even themselves!

I do understand the gentleman’s response and frustration AND yes as citizens we are responsible for what’s happening around us BUT please let’s not tie the horses and mules together all the time!

Even if for the sake of argument we agree with what he says then my question is HOW DO WE PUT IT RIGHT?? WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?? Its easy to went your anger and point out the problems and issues and tell people what they should think of themselves BUT I want to know WHAT IS THE SOLUTION??

Maray hue ko aur kitna marna hai! And btw this constant negativity and pessimism doesn’t help people to get motivated, or to change, or get up and do something! In times of disaster (earthquake & floods) when the ordinary people rise to the occasion then why would they not in other times too??

they would only if we could bring them together as a nation! or at least group them together! Give them a vision, encourage them and support them, rally around them. and this happens with only good leadership! The state has to play its role too! It takes 2 to tango and in our case it has always taken 3! the “democratic govt” needs to play a more vital role than it has over the years! The state has not been responsible for its citizens in Pakistan!

what do you expect from a already suppressed and oppressed lot whose basic survival is at stake all the time! I am not saying or advocating the fact that we should be absolved of any responsibility as citizens or humans but please stop telling me constantly that i should be ashamed of being a Pakistani because i am NOT! And i am certainly not a cockroach!

“rotten to every brain stem” he says, well then the question is who is responsible for ensuring education in Pakistan??

The problem I see with his article is that he has also confused the role of the state, citizens, politicians, army, judiciary etc AND he is certainly oblivious to the role of the civil society in Paksitan, maybe its not been loud enough but it has certainly had an impact in changing laws, policies and status of its citizens esp women!
And if the only solution he has offered is “Truth is, there is only one way to get change, and it’s not hanging the people who killed these boys. It is raising your voice to contradict people who advocate death for others….Sounds easy? Well just try it.”
If change came ONLY by raising voices…then millions of people in UK & USA demonstrated against the Iraq invasion….and the rest is history!Recommend

oh thank god some one just spoke for us too…excellent article…agreed 1000000%….these guyz fulton and fasi..after reading thier articles i was wondering that these guyz were already full of anger againt pakistan..they just needed and reason and they just blaubed it out..comparing history and people’s attitude with MAULA jutt thats hilarious i guess.and its a disgrace to our fore fathers too who were the victims of the blood shed.and look at their fore seeing and kind of their hope too..that we were and will be barbrist..damn thats too harsh and cowrd to say.and i guess that fusi and george both forget while writting these articles that they are pakistani too.and they equally share the reposibility of changing this nation by prcatically joining government institutes rather than just by writing articles to deteriorate our minds.Recommend

What a hodge podge of patriotic and non-sensical response to those that want us to take responsibility of our own worst deeds as a nation.. Unless we understand what is wrong with us, take full responsibility and agree that we are the number 1 nation globally for having worst reputation and being in the news for all the worst reasons, nothing will change.

You can put as much gloss over our communal failure to protect our citizens from ourselves, to spread hate and violence in the name of religion, to kill and maim our own in the name of honour and to export terrorism globally, but the truth is that the world sees us for who we truly are..

We are Mehreen Aziz Khan of Harvard a shameless group of Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochis, Mohajirs, Pathans, Shias, Sunnis, Barelvis, deobandis, and not Pakistanis…

We are our own worst enemies and dont need Harvard educated people to tell us any different. Let us feel the scum that we are only so that we realise that we need to wake up and become a different people.

Please , stop pretending that we are not WRONG and for Gods sake accept the responsibility for being a global migraine of a nation. Only then we will plot a course that gets us away from the filth that we currently find ourselves in..Recommend

I couldn’t disagree with you more though you might be eloquent in saying what you have said. We need to stop congratulating ourselves for actually reacting to Sialkot incident, the truth is Pakistanis are intolerant and a cruel nation. There are no human rights, the only people who have the rights are the people with power and money and this gives them the right over anything that any other Pakistani have. We as a nation never faced the level of barbarism and cruelty in our society head on rather than feel sorry for ourselves and its exactly your kind of delusional patriotism that prevents people from this self evaluation. Partition was a voilent period and it should be accepted as such rather than us making excuses for it, regardless of the catalyst for such reactions. Likewise the atrocities and the constant discrimation aimed at Ahmadis, Christains etc should be acknowledged for what they are and these people should recieve justice. or else if you breed intolerance in a society then what goes around comes around….Recommend

great … best article, great rebuttalRecommend

A very good rebuttal to all the negative publications against Pakistan….Pakistan Zindabad!Recommend

A VERY good column. God bless the writer.Recommend

Excellent,very possitive,Well done.Recommend

what is this so called positivity going to achieve for you? we have been chanting Pakistan zindabaad and feeling good about ourselves for decades and look where it has got us. Despite your Harvard education I am afraid you cannot appreciate the subtleties of allegorical prose may be we should lament the state Harvard has come to.Recommend

Thank you Mahreen for writing such an excellent article. Hats off to you!!Recommend

Those articles you have been criticizing are simply explaining the current situation and circumstances the way those journalists have seen it. I personally admire the way they were written as they were genuine and without an effort to pleasing anyone. On the other hand your article doesn’t contain any substance. Simply reading others articles and comment on them just for the sake of writing is not exactly a good journalism….and please don’t compare us with Rwanda or any other country that lives below par and try to feel good about yourself as nation.

Seriously, 2 young boys were brutally killed by an angry mob and everybody watched it…you really don’t feel like a human cockroach???? Seriously shame on us….but any how my comments are not here to defend others article….they don’t really need defense as they were written on merit.Recommend

You’re so very right in saying that those articles were nauseating. Thank you Mahreen for this piece and the article was so aptly named.Recommend

The image of Pakistanis need to be improved globally so that we can encourage the aid coming in. A secular society needs to be promoted to get our dignity back.Recommend

Mehreen is right both these guys have gone overboard. Comparisons don’t play out as people are the same the world over no matter the color of their skins.Circumstances are what provoke people to be restrained or compel them to do horrible things. If for one moment the rich countries found that they were poor and the people jobless with little or no hope. I can with certainty say that all their tolerance, patience etc. would fly out the window and the law of the jungle would prevail.Recommend

Cant justify something wrong just because someone else’s history is also littered with it. But I think most people are missing out the point Mahreen is trying to make. There are good and bad people all around us and there is propensity for both good and evil within the same person. The first step towards realism is to come out of denial and accept the wrong that was done but the loads of cynicism, negativity and despair being spewed these days is not the answer. Let’s work out plausible solutions rather than rant.Recommend