TRIGGER WARNING: The link to the video I’m sharing (from Ben Shapiro’s DAILY WIRE) shows a hotel worker having a breakdown during what appears to have been an intense exchange with an angry customer, and it could be troubling for some viewers.
The video is available publicly on many sites and has gone viral online. Many people are shaming this young man, but that is not the purpose of this blog post. We do not cast people down in shame, we call them higher in truth and love. We build up, we edify. This video is a perfect example of how the world tears people down. Cancel culture is sick and depraved, and it’s a picture of how far we’ve slidden into depravity (as a society).
The young man’s GoFundMe is at the bottom of the blog post if you’d like to give.
The first step in justifying depravity is seeing someone as subhuman.
The Hutus and the Tutsis were the same skin color, but through decades of division and incitement of hatred, the Hutus no longer saw the Tutsis as human beings with inherent value but as objects to be disposed of.
Nazis and Jews, same thing. Many were the same color (in Nazi Germany), they were the same nationality, but Germans began to see Jews as subhuman and thus disposable.
Using porn to satisfy lust can seem innocent (“it’s my life, I’m not hurting anyone”), but lust objectifies human beings for a person’s own pleasure, which is incredibly selfish and leads to things like isolation, addiction, depression, and even suicide — all things that greatly affect people in the person’s life. And because of the nature of addiction, the porn or sex addict needs racier stuff to get the same high. Experts say this is how people end up in child pornography or even paying for sex with minors in foreign countries through sex tourism.
Many, if not most, instances of mass killings uncover heavy porn addiction in the killer’s life. The dehumanizing started by seeing people as objects of lust, but once people are only objects (and no longer humans) it’s easier to justify taking human life.
Abortion is called “women’s health,” but it requires abortionists to snuff out a human heartbeat (1st trimester/3 weeks) and even dismember preborn babies (most of the 2nd trimester). The abortionist is fully aware of this, even if the mother is not, but the abortionist can justify it by viewing these small humans as mere objects that are disposable.
The man recording this video may think he’s just posting about his experience at a hotel, but this is above and beyond a bad review. This is a first step to dehumanizing people. Voices on the Left are using their notoriety to put this hotel employee on blast, accusing him of being racist because the angry customer recording the video is black, while the hotel employee is white.
I don’t know this young man personally, but he has publicly confessed to having mental health issues. He’s also gay, and the angry customer (supposedly) called him the F-word for being gay. What we know for certain (from the video footage) is that the angry customer is mocking, ridiculing, and shaming someone — this young man has become a mere object, a thing to be disposed of. The young man had to quit his job and feels his life is destroyed, and he may be right — and it is with this very purpose that cancel culture itself exists.
For those of you wondering how we got here, just look at how we treat each other in our society and how little our society values life. In our own lives, how are we treating people when they fall short? I have a tendency to get snippy with customer service reps when a company has screwed up my order. I can justify it by saying that “they should’ve gotten it right” or “I don’t have time for this,” but what I really mean is that I’VE BEEN INCONVENIENCED.
This is a very self-centered logic and not a good reason to treat them as an object that’s standing in my way. There is NEVER a good reason to do that, and doing it for the sake of my own inconvenience? That isn’t just wrong. It’s evil.
We don’t like to think of ourselves as evil. We like to think of ourselves as mostly good, and this is how we justify our actions. But self-justification is a slippery slope. When left unchecked, self-justification leads to increasingly depraved actions. This is how the Rwandan genocide happened. It’s how the Holocaust happened.
These monstrosities may have had the appearance of happening suddenly, but they were the culmination of many smaller justifications over time, a lot of little steps that chiseled away at the humanity of the people who were killed.
There’s a way that seems right to a person, but it leads to destruction (Proverbs 14:12). We all have the capacity to do this. It’s why God Himself had to come as the person of Jesus and take the punishment for our sin and all the evil things we are capable of and all the wickedness we justify in our own minds, hearts, and in our degenerating society.
This is a GoFundMe for the hotel employee who was harassed in the video. The fundraiser was started by a YouTube commentator who has also been the victim of cancel culture.
