The Need To Hate.
Some people have to hate. In my eyes, hatred does not come from being isolated, attacked, offended or unwanted integration. These are just the catalysts that fuel what already exists: ignorance, self-righteousness and hatred. No amount of education, protesting, counter-marching or talk-showing will change that.Talk shows are a personal pet peeve of mine. I understand the need for entertainment. Unfortunately, the oblivious public is used to the television telling them what is news and what is important. Allow me to give you a brief example. In 1998, a group of Indian tribes in Arizona petitioned to get the Squaw Peak freeway as well as Squaw Peek renamed. This was about the time the freeway was finished but the tribes found the continued use of the word "squaw" offensive. The word "squaw" was Arapaho slang for "vagina". I cannot imagine a more demeaning term for a woman. What they were asking was to change the name on maps (that have to be updated every year anyway) and removed from signs. It was that easy. They got two blurbs buried in the evening news and local newspapers. However, about that same time, a cab driver was offended by the new window dressing of Sky Harbor Airport entrance sign. The design (ironically en
Likewise, if you make fun of a bigot or tell him he's an idiot for believing what he does, he will "know" that he's right and begin to hate you for opposing him. Only when he is disregarded will he lose his spark and eventually fade away. Luckily, I was able to learn how to control my stuttering. I also learned that regardless of how they treated me, being dismissed as unimportant was the only thing that made me feel insignificant. Fighting bigotry shouldn't mean you "fight" it. It should mean that you promote harmony and unanimity by your actions and your speech, not because you disagree with nitwits in white pointy hats. ough, a Hopi design) offended him because the pattern looked like it spelled out KKK. In actuality, it looked like it spelled out KKKKKKKKKKKKK ... The cab driver was a black man. The destruction of these groups doesn't lay in the "education" of the masses. Or the tearing down of these radical group's ideologies. They will only yell louder. The solution is to quit saying that it is truly important to listen to them. Imagine a Klan rally where nobody but the Klan showed up. No news coverage, no anti-protestors, no cops needed. The power of their cause becomes weakened because of lack of interes
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