Tolerance

I hate quite a lot of people, as I've said on this blog before. That is because people are annoying, they grate on my nerves and cause me to lose sanity. But that is only based on personality, a person-by-person basis. There is no one group of people I hate for having a trait beyond their own control, whether that be skin color, sexual orientation, gender, or nationality.

No wait, I lied, there is one group like that, intolerant asses. If you are a racist, sexist, or discriminate based on superficial, I hate you. You're sending us backward in time, not forward. I can think of plenty of reasons to hate someone, but for something beyond their control is not a reason. At the moment, I get really angered when people discriminate against homosexual people. Or Bisexual people for that matter. No, I'm not gay, or bi, I'm straight. As an arrow. But that doesn't mean I have to speak out against them, or dislike them.

As far as I know, being gay or bi doesn't mean that they're possessed and mean to eat out my heart should I turn my back on someone. All it means is they prefer something I don't sexually, and since I prefer not to talk about that in the first place, it doesn't bother me all that much. I am sure that it doesn't mean they are evil, and I think it's safe not to point a gun in their faces because of it.

Just stupid things like that can ruin lives. Can anyone think of a good reason why the Holocaust should have happened? No? Because the Jewish people were scapegoats, and because of their religion, they were subjected to that inhumanity. Now, I hope most people this day and age wouldn't go to such extremes like that, but I know not everyone would. There's one person at least who would have everyone of a certain nationality, color, sexuality, treated like that because of that one specific trait.

That is fucking unacceptable. We need tolerance, we need to accept the differences in people and still see them as equals. We've made progress, but we're nowhere near finished. I'd like to see the day where people of all different sorts could sit around and be friends, discuss issues, and be civil toward each other.

I'm pretty sure I could write more about this, but my point is this: accept others for who they are, then decide if thing they have control over bug you. I don't like loud people, or arrogant people, but that can be anyone.

-Subtle