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It is as if the world entered an odd race to find the responsible for the coronavirus!
As the eyes have turned to China after eating habits are shown as the source of coronavirus, China and the Chinese have become a target in several parts of the world.
Is it only the Chinese? Almost all Far Easterners living in other countries than their own have got their share from this hate speech.
It has become almost ordinary that followers of different religions, based on a difference between what is halal and what is not, feel angry with the ones holding other faiths over what one is allowed to eat and what not, they oppose them and channel this anger into violence.
While the mildest form of this ordinariness is the one that remains on the discursive level, it is perhaps also the most dangerous one as it is imbedded in the unconscious.
In fact, what we call a sorrow is what penetrates into the unity of one's soul and body.
What we call a sorrow do / can never (be put on a) race...
Sorrows take on a meaning only when they are shared. If you do not share the sorrow, if you bury it deep inside and lock it up, you become the captive, the convict, the hostage, the prisoner of that sorrow. That sorrow devours you, it consumes you from deep inside. You always and only feel sorrow at your every moment for the rest of your lives.
Of course, one needs to share sorrow.
You need to feel others' deep sorrows, losses, their lost ones in your own soul and body as if it was your own. It is the virtue of being a human.
The sorrow of this global biological trouble called coronavirus that touches, that affects people from all around the world is such a sorrow.
The number of deaths that comes before your eyes from a part of the world every evening and keeps increasing is, in fact, beyond being a mere number. Each and every one of them is a world in itself, a world that has stories about itself and the lives it has touched until the moment when it could live, until the very moment when it could breathe.
The humanity needs to have an awareness of this, it needs to have this comprehension.
About Şeyhmus DikenHe is from Diyarbakır and lives in Diyrbakır. He is a member of the Turkish Writers' Union (TYS) and PEN International Representative to Diyarbakır. He still pens articles for bianet and Tigris News. He has 20 books that have been translated into several languages. He graduated from the Ankara University (AÜ) Faculty of Political Sciences. |
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