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originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: amazing
Consider what you wrote and then start thinking about what you hear coming out fo the mouths of some of the South African assemblymen these days.
Then that's hate speech. Because you're talking about violence to an audience that is primed for it. In this case it's poverty and an extreme sense that they've been done wrong and it's time for revenge to take back what is rightfully theirs.
That's hate speech pure and simple and it's wrong.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: mikell
Ask some school shooters if they are tired of being bullied that seems to be a common connection.
We know that certain kids who get bullied will go to two extremes,, lashing out violently and suicide.
originally posted by: BlueMule
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
Hatred has its place in the scheme of things. So does love.
Turn, turn, turn. It’s a song by The Byrds. Look it up. Maybe give it a listen.
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: mikell
Ask some school shooters if they are tired of being bullied that seems to be a common connection.
We know that certain kids who get bullied will go to two extremes,, lashing out violently and suicide.
Or turning to his family, OH WAIT! sigh
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: mikell
Ask some school shooters if they are tired of being bullied that seems to be a common connection.
We know that certain kids who get bullied will go to two extremes,, lashing out violently and suicide.
Or turning to his family, OH WAIT! sigh
We know that some kids won't, or try in their way and it just seems helpless to them, hopeless to them. We also know that millions of kids turn to their parents every day as well and many kids learn to be assertive and fight back.
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: mikell
Ask some school shooters if they are tired of being bullied that seems to be a common connection.
We know that certain kids who get bullied will go to two extremes,, lashing out violently and suicide.
Or turning to his family, OH WAIT! sigh
We know that some kids won't, or try in their way and it just seems helpless to them, hopeless to them. We also know that millions of kids turn to their parents every day as well and many kids learn to be assertive and fight back.
When we become stupid enough as a society to BEG our government to weaponize words and make the use of those words a crime over offending someone, just how free are we?
And I agree. The only difference is, say a Muslim holy man telling his flock to kill the American infidels.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: mikell
Ask some school shooters if they are tired of being bullied that seems to be a common connection.
We know that certain kids who get bullied will go to two extremes,, lashing out violently and suicide.
Or turning to his family, OH WAIT! sigh
We know that some kids won't, or try in their way and it just seems helpless to them, hopeless to them. We also know that millions of kids turn to their parents every day as well and many kids learn to be assertive and fight back.
When we become stupid enough as a society to BEG our government to weaponize words and make the use of those words a crime over offending someone, just how free are we?
Agreed. When we listen to MSNBC or FOX NEWS we listen to weaponized words every day though. Not saying we should censure them, but that if we're stupid enough to listen we deserve the society that we get.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: BlueMule
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
Hatred has its place in the scheme of things. So does love.
Turn, turn, turn. It’s a song by The Byrds. Look it up. Maybe give it a listen.
Even though logically we know that hate is always bad, it effects the one that hates often times, more than the one you hate. Hate never has a place. Now, evolving to that plane of nonhate and peace and tranquility is very, very hard to do for us humans.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: amazing
And I agree. The only difference is, say a Muslim holy man telling his flock to kill the American infidels.
There are practical reasons for allowing such rhetoric to see the light of day. Frankly, I want to know who in the room is a nazi or islamist.
originally posted by: BlueMule
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: BlueMule
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
Hatred has its place in the scheme of things. So does love.
Turn, turn, turn. It’s a song by The Byrds. Look it up. Maybe give it a listen.
Even though logically we know that hate is always bad, it effects the one that hates often times, more than the one you hate. Hate never has a place. Now, evolving to that plane of nonhate and peace and tranquility is very, very hard to do for us humans.
Hate, cruelty, brutality always has a place in the field of space and time. Or it simply wouldn’t exist.
The plane of nonhate is outside of that, and glimpses of it are fleeting. We can’t live there. We live here, in spacetime, with all its energies and pains and reversals and karmas and limitations.
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: mikell
Ask some school shooters if they are tired of being bullied that seems to be a common connection.
We know that certain kids who get bullied will go to two extremes,, lashing out violently and suicide.
Or turning to his family, OH WAIT! sigh
We know that some kids won't, or try in their way and it just seems helpless to them, hopeless to them. We also know that millions of kids turn to their parents every day as well and many kids learn to be assertive and fight back.
When we become stupid enough as a society to BEG our government to weaponize words and make the use of those words a crime over offending someone, just how free are we?
Agreed. When we listen to MSNBC or FOX NEWS we listen to weaponized words every day though. Not saying we should censure them, but that if we're stupid enough to listen we deserve the society that we get.
I agree!
My problem with this whole reality version of the movie IDIOCRACY is that the society I see creeping up on me is akin to the zombie apocalypse. I am trying to warn people of what's comin as many others are. The shocker will be the zombies won't be dead!