A thought provoking discussion of what "community" really is. Here is what it isn't:
You ever notice the flagrant misuse of the word “community”? As in, “the gay community” believes this, or “the Black community” thinks thus and so, because they are monolithic GroupThink people with no individuality?
If you have competing criminal gangs living a few blocks from one another that have drive-by shootings by fatherless sociopaths, where’s the “community” part? Especially when the stray bullets kill little kids and old ladies hiding in their houses rather than the rival drug dealers. I ask again: how is that a “community” just because they all have the same skin tone? Oh, there were and are definitely black communities throughout this great and good land, but not every neighborhood deserves that appellation just because everybody in it is a shade of the same color.
"Community" is a set of individuals that may have LOTS of diversity of thought, however due to being in fairly close physical proximity and having similar transcendent beliefs in what is ultimately important -- historically, all some sort of Christian, or at least "God fearing", and American -- as in they actually believe that the written Constitution and the history of America is important, unique, and a critical advancement in world history. Being blessed to live in an exceptional nation and being blessed to freely worship the God of the universe as they saw him were primary -- from there on down, their priorities valued having friendly relations with their neighbors, and treating all people, even their "enemies" with respect and possibly even love.
On the long list of things we have lost, yet many choose to fake like we haven't -- as in "smart mask wearing community" signalling the "virtue" of their "community" over those not wearing masks in some location.
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