The handwritten sticker, found attached to the glass of a tram stop in central Helsinki, reads: "Go ahead and judge" (or "Judge away").
Who put that sticker there and for what purpose? Did someone simply think it a cool sounding phrase without a more profound purpose or was it a comment? If it is a comment, what is it about?
It could be an anti-anything statement, by someone who thinks it's completely right to judge whatever or whoever he or she doesn't approve. Perhaps it was a supporter of the True Finns party who has what the party likes to call a "critical attitude towards immigration" (in most cases amounting to not much more than 'most immigrants don't need protection, they're just here to take our jobs'). Or maybe a Christian fundamentalist who doesn't approve of gays.
Or, it could be a comment AGAINST judgemental attitudes and prejudice, prejudices about specific things or prejudice in general: prejudicial people can go on all they want, it's all just empty talk that has no power to hurt.
It could also be something personal: someone's anonymous comment about judgemental attitudes he or she had met.
What do you think it's about?
4 comments:
I think, or my first thought was, judge me anyway, it's who or what I am, so you can judge, but I have freedom from your judging. (makes sense?) meaning, I don't care what you think.
Maybe it's a re-translation of "judge lest ye be judged" which was re-translated from Matthew 7:1, "Judge not that ye be not judged."
hmm.
neat layered photo.
A retranslation of that, it's a good idea.
I think I agree with you both. It feels more a positive than a negative thought: a comment against judging others rather than an encouragement to judge others.
I always like the positive. We're all on the same page.
Maria - sorry for crossblogging here, but I was just reading @ Gina's about all the berries in your part of the world. I had no idea. How very cool. I would love to hear more. (and pics)
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