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We Are All Hypocrites At This Point

On losing friends and family to wokeness

Devika Malik
5 min readJan 31, 2024
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It’s a fact that even the most religious person is nine points atheist. One can certainly and rationally point out the vices in every other religion except their own. We have become enslaved to our biases, and that sums up the entire human race.

We are not idiots.

We just conveniently turn a blind eye to facilitate our satisfaction and beliefs.

Which again brings me to the question that —

Is being grumpy and judgmental a side effect of becoming mature and having boundaries?

The communist friend

My father has his checklist of all the “ back in my day ” stories that he’s bound to reshare every time he gets an audience, and one of his favourites is the one about his communist friend, his radical ideas, love for dancing and how he left the military training over a trivial argument with some senior.

My dad is wholly against everything his friend stood for. ( One was a communist, and another was a nationalist. )

He often teased him by saying that someday his illusion of socialism will fade, and then he’ll understand that Karl Marx was only good in…

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Devika Malik
Devika Malik

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