i was reading logen's blog when i came across an entry that caught my attention.it reads like this,
'Many a times, I have come across hate sites; sites that promote hate to a particular race, religion, community, lifestyle, gender, sexual orientation and even nation, through any means, including mockery. It is just bizzare that some of them seem not to know they are of that category.
Does it seem right, to just stereotype and condemn a whole community because of a few bad apples? Is it right to hate and feel disgust at what you do not understand?
Au contraire, I feel the same amount of disgust, if not more and a mighty vestige of pity at those who promote hate, consciously or not. Their minds are at such low capacities to understand. Do the haters not understand that it is that kind of mindset that the Nazis had. And, of course, we know the monstrosities that happened during that dark period.
Like it or not, there are maniacs in every community. The question is, do we judge the whole community, that is innocent, by those maniacs. Is it justifiable and reasonable to do so.
One of the greatest weakness of humanity is that most do not have the innate ability to seek or desire to understand what they fear. Yes, you read it right. That weakness is the root of many wars and violence.
As for the rest of us, what do we do? Keep silent when someone incites such contemptuous views? Never! The world saw what happened when we shut our mouths about the Nazi incident. Do we need the repeat of history? How many more innocents are going to suffer pain and die?
The only thing we can do is to speak up against hate. That, however, does not mean to hate hate or to state your views in anger; doing so merely contradicts your views on hate and your purpose, which is to make your stand, make that person understand or at least make them know that someone in this world does not condone their mindset and intolerance. If you have the guts to do it, others will be inspired by your courage to speak up."
(with apologies to logish)
what he says makes sense somehow.we are ready to believe so readily abt other ppl that we sudden;y and inconspicuously start to assume the worst of ppl.
to be frank i'm slightly tired of this tpe of branding.many of us choose to live in their comfort zone.eg.chinese will (more or less)make frens with chinese,malays with malays etc.i know that this is due to the fact that many of us have much in common with them but hey,wake up!
we live so much in our comfort zone that many choose not to venture out into more exciting interests.some ppl would like to try basketball, but don't because it's mainly populated with one race group like the chinese.
many would want to play football,but no.too many malays.we are so busy assuming things that we sometimes forget to actually see and understand ppl.shouldn't we see ppl judge for ourselves and see them for who they are and not what they are???
i have nth to say except my cousins are crazy.
