If I could, I’d like to ask these groups one simple question.
Why hate? Tell me what it is that makes you see another group of people with a different lifestyle or background, or culture, or anything else that you’re not a part of, and you default to hating that group.
I’ve never understood that concept. I can understand hating individuals, because those individuals are assholes. I have plenty of people throughout my life where I’ll say “Ugh, Gary is an asshole!”. But I don’t sit here and say “THOSE people are assholes!”
Because it’s perfectly fine to judge people. It’s actually important to judge people. But you can’t judge whole groups as one. It doesn’t work. Because EVERY group has good and bad. That’s just the nature of humans. So if you judge a whole group as one, you’re missing the point of judging. To judge someone is to analize their traits as a person. If you try to do that with a group, there’s too much variation to come to any conclusion, and at that point it’s not fair judgement, it’s just hate.
Which brings us back to “Why hate?”
And I want anyone from these groups who are transphobic, or maybe other groups that are racist, or maybe other groups that are hateful towards any gender, I want them to explain their hate. I want them to lay out their logic.
Because I assume they’ll spew out some hateful statement like “They’re always doing this and this”. And I would challenge them on that.
“When did they do this and this?”
Or maybe they’d say “Because they have menal illness!” And I’d say “So you hate people with mental illness? If someone in your family develops dementia, you’ll hate them too?”
Every sentence they take I’d challenge them to make a logical explaination of it. Because I don’t think they can. And 9/10 of them I don’t think will change. However, I think you’ll get some people who realize “Wait…am I wrong? Am I being an asshole? Oh my god I’M the asshole here!”
If I could, I’d like to ask these groups one simple question.
Why hate? Tell me what it is that makes you see another group of people with a different lifestyle or background, or culture, or anything else that you’re not a part of, and you default to hating that group.
I’ve never understood that concept. I can understand hating individuals, because those individuals are assholes. I have plenty of people throughout my life where I’ll say “Ugh, Gary is an asshole!”. But I don’t sit here and say “THOSE people are assholes!”
Because it’s perfectly fine to judge people. It’s actually important to judge people. But you can’t judge whole groups as one. It doesn’t work. Because EVERY group has good and bad. That’s just the nature of humans. So if you judge a whole group as one, you’re missing the point of judging. To judge someone is to analize their traits as a person. If you try to do that with a group, there’s too much variation to come to any conclusion, and at that point it’s not fair judgement, it’s just hate.
Which brings us back to “Why hate?”
And I want anyone from these groups who are transphobic, or maybe other groups that are racist, or maybe other groups that are hateful towards any gender, I want them to explain their hate. I want them to lay out their logic.
Because I assume they’ll spew out some hateful statement like “They’re always doing this and this”. And I would challenge them on that.
“When did they do this and this?”
Or maybe they’d say “Because they have menal illness!” And I’d say “So you hate people with mental illness? If someone in your family develops dementia, you’ll hate them too?”
Every sentence they take I’d challenge them to make a logical explaination of it. Because I don’t think they can. And 9/10 of them I don’t think will change. However, I think you’ll get some people who realize “Wait…am I wrong? Am I being an asshole? Oh my god I’M the asshole here!”
religion.