HATRED

Tolerance and hatred

Tolerance and Hatred

Introduction

More than a century, writers have written a lot regarding the hatred. Andrew Sullivan wrote a lot about this topic. The heritage of racism in our society, sexism homophobia and pre-justice all can be seen in our society. We are all familiar what happen in the past and that attitudes still going on in the present. The imperfect nature of the hate describe by the Sullivan is true. Hating on the bases of racism, sexism homophobia and pre-justice is immoral.

Discussion

We all know what King John William did with James Byrd and its show hatred towards him and his family. What was that? Why he treated like this? Of course because of hate or we can say discrimination, when we say hate, we mean something darker and graver. In United State, hate is not a crime but about bias or prejudice. Hate crime is concern with the criminal behavior which been motivated by prejudice. However, it is the concept that is complex, wide, and overcast. We and our society where we are living all have prejudices or discrimination. This might be for or against any groups, individuals, weather, foods, and countries and so on. Prejudices sometimes embedded in experience, along with irrationality and fantasy. However, sometime they are an ongoing process from our family, school, religions, friends and culture.

Prejudices for instance antifascist have been regarded as good like preference of tall people over short people are comparatively inoffensive. Nevertheless, there are certain prejudices that incited as a strong social and political censure for instance, anti-Semitism, racism and misogyny (www.nytimes.com).

Although in the latter group, we see there is an enormous deal of confusion regarding constituting an acceptable preference or opinion. We have seen many people saying that they prefer to be near in historical black college, or I resist Jewish or Zionism states or I do not like to hang out with dark people or African American people. Hence, what comprise intolerable, hateful discrimination?

I believe that prejudice is a learnt behavior. Why? According to the Abraham Kaplan who is a philosophy professor state that the concept of how child learn behavior from it surrounding, this will be clear from the example which I came across. Few days back, my neighbor's son came from his first day school. His father asked him regarding the colored children in his class. He stated that there are only white and black children in class. Now, this child has no concept of prejudice. Nevertheless, one might speculate how child learnt this concept.

In the last several decades, the American race problem has withdrawn from the forefront of the public imagination, only to mask ever-widening social, political, and economic inequalities caused by the persistence of American racism. What I think is that despite the myth of American liberalism's triumph over racism, which aspires toward a “racially color-blind society” by denying varying racial and ethnic identities, racism the assignment of people to an inferior category and the determination of their social, economic, civic, and human standing ...