It is said that Picasso spent his life learning how to draw like children. What does that even mean? Perhaps he believed that a child is the first to hold pure freedom of expression, untouched by rules, fear, or judgment. As soon as a child begins to grasp the world, he draws lines no one understands, yet he understands them completely because they flow straight from his inner universe.

Racism, in all its forms, has been one of humanity’s darkest inventions, and its impact has not faded with the end of slavery or the fall of empires. It remains stitched into laws, economies, identities, beauty standards, borders, and even languages.

In Arab contexts, linguistic bias is intertwined with patriarchal social and religious structures that govern gender relations. Language here is far from neutral, it legitimizes inequality and perpetuates it.

Neglecting the concerns of youth is not merely a political or administrative flaw; it is evidence of a collective psychological state of nihilism and hopelessness toward the future. The young person who grows up in such an environment emerges alone, alienated within their own homeland, frustrated, not because they failed, but because they were never given the chance to try.

A person’s belief in their absolute right to freedom often stems from arrogance and blindness to the rights of others. They see themselves entitled to say whatever they wish—even when their words carry injustice or harm toward others. They demand freedom for their own voice while denying it to their opponents, hiding behind excuses like “personal boundaries” or “avoiding offense.”