Monday, April 5, 2010

War and Hate Relate

What is hate? For most people, hate is expressed as extreme dislike for someone or something, like "I hate Brussels sprouts," or "I hate Mary-Kate and Ashley," but what they fail to realize is that hate cannot be expressed when those things have not been experienced. For me, hate cannot be expressed until you have directly experienced it, full-on and in-person. I feel quite incredulous towards one who would say they hate Mary-Kate and Ashley, when i know they haven't met them. Judgement and hate are two different feelings that, although they may seem related, are separated by an abyss of dissimilarities. So what is hate? To me, it is dis contempt towards something you have personally experienced, and have strong feelings against to the point of intolerance.

Hate has been transformed from thoughts and feelings to actions, the worst of which is undoubtedly discrimination. Never has the world known a worse hate than the discrimination towards the Jewish people by the Germans in WWII. Their hate was harsh and unreasonable. No one can really pinpoint EXACTLY what they were against. "The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were." - John Conway, a holocaust survivor stated.
Jewish babies were used as target practice for their army, and many adults were the "guinea pigs" for cruel procedure tests that German doctors used. These shocking and horrifying practices went on for a very long time, because other countries, such as the US decided to over look it, thinking that it wouldn't last forever, and that keeping to ourselves would improve us and our economy. If only we'd listened to a very wise man, Winston Churchill when he said, "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
Today there is a lot of discrimination and hate towards Mexicans. The fact of the matter is that most people will blame their problems and the worlds problems on anyone that is and easy target (usually of another ethnicitys.) Currently, because of our growing problem with illegal immigrants, Mexicans are an easy target for the down fall and decline of society. Whether or not this is right, it is unavoidable and there will always be discrimination and hate on earth.

1 comment:

  1. I agree and disagree with you when you say that the worst hate the world has ever seen is that of Jewish people during ww2. I mean we did enslave the African race for quite a while because we believed them to be cursed. we did lynch them, take them away from their families and kill way to many of them. But I also agree with you in a way because Hitler just plain didn't like Jews. More of them were killed in a shorter amount of time. But if you think about it blacks and jews lived in the same conditions.

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