(January 7, 2017 at 8:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm a bit puzzled. No one - here, in public, in the media, in law enforcement - seems to be saying that this is anything but a hate crime. There seems to be almost universal agreement that what was done to this kid was reprehensible in the extreme. The animals who committed this crime have been denied bond of any sort, and are facing charges that will likely end in lengthy prison terms for the four of them.
Where's the controversy?
Boru
Yep it was a hate crime, but which sect of our population in America do you think has more hate groups on average? Southern Poverty Law Center I do believe has a list of hundreds if not thousands. That list had a boom upon hummmmmm some guy from "Kenya" about to leave the White House. And the amount of assaults on LGBT and minorities has also gone up upon orange asshat's election.
Yep, it was a hate crime, but that does not change when it comes to the climate of our entire nation and our deep seeded history is unfortunately still affecting us mentally.
I honestly DO believe most when they say they are not racist, but if someone, not you, but if anyone is using that to ignore a very real problem, that does not help. The fact we elected Celebrity Despot who scapegoated everyone dog whistling to the poor persecuted white majority says to me we are backsliding not progressing.
To anyone here reading this, I really think it would help humans in general to take the words "minority" and "majority" in terms of geography. Whites are a majority in America, but if you moved to China, you'd be a minority. If you moved to Kenya again, you'd be a minority. But even between those of very similar skin tones, if you are white, speak no German, move to Germany, you are not going to feel the same or fit in as well as those who were born and raised there.
A black person it would be the same. If they are born here in America, move to a predominately majority dark toned population in any given country in Africa, the also would not have the same experiences growing up as if they were born there as black Muslims or Black Christians born there.
Just like Kurdish Christians are abused in the East, and gays are feared and abused in the east. But here in America whites are NOT subject to the same volume of being feared nor are they affected as negatively on average.
It is not as simple as far too many want to make it "I'm not racist" or "see see see, they do it too". "otherism" is an unfortunate reality worldwide in our species history, it is an unfortunate product of evolutionary survival in our competing over resources. But you cant simply point that out to most or simply say "That was then" or " get over it" or " "I am not like them".
Knowing our species are not a separate species, and knowing our species is much older than our written religions and borders, knowing that we are all capable of the same acts of cruelty or compassion, really does help de-tangle our complex social ills.
