In a truly healthy and civilized society, the principle that all human life has equal value should be an unquestionable truth. The expression “all lives matter” was born as a call for unity, a reminder that justice loses its meaning when it becomes selective. However, in the morally sick atmosphere of our time, asserting that white lives matter has become an act of silent rebellion.
The paradox is evident. We live in an age where inclusion is proclaimed from every media and academic pulpit, but exclusion is practiced with impunity against those who dare to reaffirm the universality of human value. A slogan designed to express solidarity, White Lives Matter, is now condemned as offensive, extremist, or even hateful. The same platforms that claim to defend diversity of expression are quick to silence, censor, or ridicule anyone who utters those three simple words.
This is not justice, it is moral inversion. Denigrating one group in the name of another is not equality, it is discrimination in another form. True equality requires consistency. If society insists on proclaiming that Black Lives Matter, Asian Lives Matter, and Trans Lives Matter, then it must equally recognize that White Lives Matter. Otherwise, it is no longer a question of equality, but of ideological hierarchy.
It is worth remembering that, contrary to what the dominant propaganda suggests, people of European descent are now a demographic minority in the world. Paradoxically, this minority is treated as if it were an oppressive majority, having to apologize for its own cultural existence. No civilization can thrive when it teaches some of its children to be ashamed of their heritage.
Social media, once presented as forums for free dialogue, have become modern inquisitorial tribunals. Any thought that deviates from the permitted narrative is banned, censored, and deleted. Such conduct is not only undemocratic, it is deeply dangerous, as it destroys the very foundation of civilized coexistence: the free exchange of ideas.
History teaches us that truth does not survive where speech is suppressed. When the pain of some is amplified and that of others is disregarded, resentment germinates, divisions deepen, and the moral fabric of the nation unravels. The ethical strength of a people is not measured by the protection it grants to those who are offended, but by the courage with which it defends the right of all to express themselves, even and especially when this becomes unpopular.
Until the day comes when all life truly matters without exception, we will remain a society that proclaims equality and practices exclusion.
César DePaço
Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Honorary Consul of Portugal (2014 to 2020)
Founder and CEO of Summit Nutritionals International Inc.
President of the DePaço Foundation
Unconditional defender of the Security Forces and Conservative Principles
Source: LusoAmericano