On Prejudice
I am not a racist, sexist, bigot. I hate everyone equally on an individual basis, as my default position. Until you prove yourself to be worth liking, I don’t like you. No one can tell a good person from a bad one at sight and trying to is foolish, encouraging others to is asinine. I’m a white guy and there are white people I cannot friggin’ stand, but, at the same time, there are blacks, hispanics and asians that I gladly embrace as brothers. Judging people by their appearance is just about the stupidest thing there is. I’ve always liked the line from Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream speech” about judging people not by the color of their skin, but, by the content of their character, because that is the ONLY correct way to judge people. How so many people have such a hard time grasping this simple concept baffles me.
Category: Pointless blather, Society
EVERYBODY is predjudiced in some way shape or form. Every ethnic group on the planet does what comes naturally to humans and will gravitate to their own kind over others. That’s nothing to be ashamed of, it is what it is.
What bothers me is when it gets incorporated into a doctrine of violence.
I grew up in a very diverse neighborhood 30 miles west of Cleveland. Serbians, Irish, Italians, Romanians, Germans, Polish, Hungarians, Slovaks, Mexicans, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Croatians, you name it, they’re here.
I’ve been overseas many times as a Soldier, and either visited or was stationed in the ancestral homelands of my own people, as well as others in the afformentioned groups.
I’ve been exposed to the people, food, attitudes, traditions, and customs of many nationalities other than my own.
It has two advantages; educational, and the fact that if I don’t like you, I know why.