"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
01/09/2015 at 18:44 • Filed to: None
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"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
01/09/2015 at 18:44 • Filed to: None | 8
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Politics and some feels inside:
Just came back from a round of the pubs. Recent events have made people whom I had considered reasonable (otherwise I wouldn't talk to them anyway) voice stuff I .... well it made me sad.
Relatively smart people who now resort to "us" and "them" in their reasonings and use broad generalisations to explain complex matters. And that is nothing to the language and the overall tone that I overheard the people on the next table over using. O.K. it was at a dive where you don't exactly meet scholars, more like blue collar guys. But they are the bread and butter of every society, if we are losing them, we are losing the battle.
Right now, I feel as if the terrorists have won. Hatred never seems to grow out of fashion and it only seeds more.
"All men are created equal." Skol. Cheers. Prost. Nastrovje. Whatever. Let's drink to that!
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> Klaus Schmoll
01/09/2015 at 18:47 |
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Except Brown people.
Fuck them.
/sarcasm/
/sadly too true/
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Klaus Schmoll
> ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
01/09/2015 at 18:51 |
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It all depends on the shade of brown!
//not even sarcasm//
"Those poor fugitives from the civil war in Syria? Let them in! But those...... (enter racial slur here)..... Fuck them."
Tipo Stradale Fever
> Klaus Schmoll
01/09/2015 at 19:34 |
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Ah well, there has always been an ´us´ vs ´them´ sentiment in every culture. Before Islam it was the Soviet Block, before the soviets it was the Japanese/Germans. It´s human nature and it´s pretty much inevitable.
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Klaus Schmoll
> Tipo Stradale Fever
01/09/2015 at 19:41 |
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A common enemy makes a group bond much more intesively. That's psychology 101. It's just sad to see it happen in real life and on a global scale.
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Tipo Stradale Fever
> Klaus Schmoll
01/09/2015 at 19:50 |
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Well, as a member of the ´them´ group I can garantee you that it´s not that black and white. These people just need to vent their frustation... I bet that if they have a real conversation with a muslim their opinions will turn out to be a lot less ´extreme´.
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Klaus Schmoll
> Tipo Stradale Fever
01/09/2015 at 20:08 |
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Yes! And yes again! I have a lot of friends and some happen to be Atheists or Jews or Muslims or Catholics or whatever. We couldn't care less!
The funny thing, or let's not even call that "funny", is that most of the protest comes from people who have no contact with "them" whatsoever. As soon as people actually meet and talk, all is relatively well. So the task will be to get people to talk. Any idea as how to do that? That's what we need right now!
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Tipo Stradale Fever
> Klaus Schmoll
01/09/2015 at 20:29 |
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Well you´re talking to a muslim Algerian right now haha. You´ve hit it spot on though. There just isn´t enough dialogue...But yeah, it seems to be ( atleast imo) that western mass media doesnt emphasise enough that the (overwhelming) majority of muslims absolutely fucking hate terrorists. I feel that the mass media for a huge part dictates the feeling of these people, and therefore critical in spreading awareness. Something like; These people affect ´muslims´ far more than they do ´western´ people.
Just a quick example; If you have a beard, it´s absolutely impossible to get a job in Algeria. Having a beard automatically makes you an islamist in the public mind. The anti-islamist feeling is that strong in Algeria. Such small things should be known in the West. I mean people should know that even in the Arabic world they are absolutely hated.
orcim
> Tipo Stradale Fever
01/10/2015 at 02:04 |
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So like bulk buys of int'l Norelco electric razors sent to the middle east would help? Who knew?
(I joke. Sometimes I have to do that to overcome the idiocy I'm surrounded by.)
My real comment is just that you should build your tribe as I and others have done. Friendliness isn't enough, it requires more to be a "friend" vs. "an acquaintance." In the end, I have maybe 5 friends at a time and I'm old. We're talking a 99.9% failure rate here. But being picky results in friends you can trust and that aren't gonna get pulled off with one news cast tilted one direction or another. Build your friend network with care - but not immediately, and not fast. Just incrementally. Works for me, anyway.
And no, I don't have haters for gay, muslim, brown skins, red skins, yellow skins, repub/democrat, catholic/protestant, in my life as so-called friends. They themselves are all those things, but they don't *hate* the 'other'. My life is rather pleasant as a result.