Thursday, July 21, 2022

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Did tactical votes defeat Kemi?


"a tenacious and unreflective pursuit of social 
justice as a necessary end can produce a worst 
case of social injustice."
Thought for the month(Kolapo)

Can you  please give a rational, secular
example? I wouldn't want to leave a
baby python in my field for later.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali:





1.    Context of the quote: you allude to the quote's non-secular context. It is important to provide that context for those who might want to know: 

A thought for the month: 

 a tenacious and unreflective pursuit of social justice as a necessary end can produce a worst case of social injustice 

Master, you sowed good seed in your field, didn't you? Then where did these weeds come from?' . . . . "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them out?' "He said, 'No! If you pull out the weeds, you might pull out the wheat with them.  Let both grow together until the harvest."  [Jesus of Nazareth, Holy Bible, Matt 13:27-30] 


2.    Reflectivity: it is important to take note of the qualifier, the adjective, "unreflective" in that quote; i.e. deep reflection is required  

  • the servants in that story thought of social justice only in terms of pulling out by the roots.  
  • the servants are blind to the possibility and feasibility that the tare and wheat can "both grow together"; that the wheat is not entirely devoid of opportunity to live a tolerably good life though hampered and hurt by the tare 
  • the servants did not think of less drastic options like varying the provision of resources to the two or cutting off vines and denuding the tare of leaves etc 
  • the servants did not see that the tare and the wheat already have their roots closely entangled beneath the surface of the ground 
  • the servants fail to see that the pulling out solution will kill off the wheat, a ruinous rather than effective, result. 

3.    Python in the field: Regarding whether to leave a baby python in your field for latter 

  • if we assume that the "python in the field" shares an analogous structure with the "wheat and tare" scenario, whether your decision is correct depends on what your reflection is on the necessity for and repercussion of your decision. 

Hence, reflecting on the predicament with the python, though I do not consider it analogous to the wheat and the tare situation, the questions that I will ask are; 

  • what type of python is it?
  • what danger lurks in it?
  • do you only kill it? 
  • can you harmlessly confine it to a strip of your field? 
  • can you redirect it away from your field? 
  • can you tame it and make it into a living scarecrow in your field? 

 

4. "rational, secular example": I'll give more than one. they are all around us 

  • Russia in Ukraine and all the horror, death, and displacement happening to innocent Ukrainians and Russians and yet-to-be-determined negative consequences on both parties in the future 
  • Western sanctions on and cancellation of all Russians and everything Russian and the resulting grain, fertilizer, gas, and inflation crises 
  • ASUU strike in Nigeria and the harm rather than good it started doing to a generation of Nigerian youth, the Nigeria's education, to Nigeria's reputation, and negative social and psychological repercussions of the nearly 3 decades of strikes. 
  • until recently the mindless prescription/use of antibiotics that kill both harmful and needful bacteria in our guts making us less healthy and contributing to drug resistance and possibly to the rise of superbugs.  


Femi J. Kolapo 

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           a tenacious and unreflective pursuit of social justice as a necessary end can produce a worst case of social injustice
Master, you sowed good seed in your field, didn't you? Then where did these weeds come from?' . . . . "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them out?' "He said, 'No! If you pull out the weeds, you might pull out the wheat with them.  Let both grow together until the harvest."  [Jesus of Nazareth, Holy Bible, Matt 13:27-30]

 



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Subject: Re: Did tactical votes defeat Kemi?
 

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           "a tenacious and unreflective pursuit of social 
justice as a necessary end can produce a worst 
case of social injustice."
Thought for the month(Kolapo)

Can you  please give a rational, secular
example? I wouldn't want to leave a
baby python in my field for later.





Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association


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           a tenacious and unreflective pursuit of social justice as a necessary end can produce a worst case of social injustice
Master, you sowed good seed in your field, didn't you? Then where did these weeds come from?' . . . . "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them out?' "He said, 'No! If you pull out the weeds, you might pull out the wheat with them.  Let both grow together until the harvest."  [Jesus of Nazareth, Holy Bible, Matt 13:27-30]

 


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