Why People Are Racist & How Witchcraft Can Help
A caveat: I have mentioned some friends in this article. They have not necessarily been portrayed at their most positive, and this is why I have not named them. We all have faults and we all make mistakes. This does not make us bad people, it makes us human. I have cited these examples because these are the examples I have to cite, and to me, they illustrate my point; how the environment of toxic positivity about which I speak can cause even the nicest, smartest people to be unintentionally mean or foolish. I mean no harm. You are still my friends. I still love you.
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From Sable Aradia.
Beyond Mere Witchcraft
“Oh, I used to study Wicca,” says the 22-year-old woman with a patronizing smile, “but I’ve gone beyond that now.”
“Have you?” I ask, arching my eyebrow while I sit at the fair table where I’m selling the witchcraft books I wrote.
Realizing she has made an error, she backtracks. “Oh, well, you know, I think it’s perfectly fine for some.” She is unaware of her derision, her dismissal. “But I find I get so much more in the path I’m following now. And I don’t need all those tools.” Her tone is smug. Her implication is clearly that I must be less enlightened than she is, because she thinks I do.
Of course she does. She’s left witchcraft for the New Age community. She’s 22 years…
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