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I'm so tired of all the hate (1 Viewer)

Sometimes I wonder how big a part technology, social media, 24/7 news, etc has played in all this.

 
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 “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda

 
This is one area where I agree with Tim - the majority of people are good.  I know it doesn't seem that way, especially if you watch cable or local news but for me I interact with lots of people every day and virtually all of them are nice, decent people.  It sucks that the small few that are evil get the headlines but I try to focus on the good in people.

 
ShamrockPride said:
Sometimes I wonder how big a part technology, social media, 24/7 news, etc has played in all this.
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Not 100% but it's definitely up there. I'd say more than 2/3rds. 

At the same time though, we've only really had this technology for a decade to this extent. So give us another 10-30 years and maybe we work out a lot of the social anxiety we've suppressed for all these years.

 
Social anxiety is too nice a word.  FB et.al. has made it easier for racists and misogynists and homophobes to reinforce each other's fears and biases.  It has put a virtual microphone to people who would best be ignored.  The anonymity encourages people to say stuff they would never say in face to face communications.

 
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My entire adult life has been with cable and social media so I don't know, but you really think people were more caring or more positive  50  years ago?

 
Is the OP even serious? This guy's tongue is usually very far in his cheek. He's probably making a point, but God knows what it is. If it's face value, I apologize preemptively.

 
Ilov80s said:
My entire adult life has been with cable and social media so I don't know, but you really think people were more caring or more positive  50  years ago?
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No. They just didn't have an outlet to let the crazy thoughts of their head out anonymously.

 
ShamrockPride said:
Sometimes I wonder how big a part technology, social media, 24/7 news, etc has played in all this.
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people have been basspoles to each other for thousands of years.....   slavery, crusades, wars, torture, deceit, lies, abuse, etc.

As bad as things may "seem" now,  if anything I think we're in a much better place now than we used to be.

But it doesn't feel or seem like it.

No matter what you do, sadly, people are always going to do bad things to each other...  you can ban the guns, bombs, etc...  they'll find another way to oppress one another.  Some people just suck...  but you'll never force or legislate people or "discover their mental illness"  in time to rid the world of its problems.

So.. in the sense that the media alerts you to each and every tragedy and you're exposed to it by being connected to society via information that travels very very fast.  I would say that you being aware of it makes things seem a lot worse

 
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Literally a guy from a tribal religion who committed a hate crime and murdered a mass of innocent homosexual civilians enjoying themselves in a night club "because his religion said this is doing God's work." The man yelled "Allah Akbar" and called 911 to state the same before committing these murders. He is not being condemned by his religion, rather celebrated within their circles, at least from what we can see online. I won't hold my breath for the religion to make a public statement separating themselves from the shooter.

The religion hates the fact that we in the US possess the freedom as Americans to act and behave however we wish to do so. The religion is not afraid to attack us and our freedoms, so why are we so afraid of them, avoiding addressing the name of the religion as I have in my post and taking the same actions and terrorizing us? Gun laws are a total cop out, if they are 100% illegal this guy finds a way to get a gun and act as his religion instructs him to do so, so stop it.

That's what I'm tired of.

 
mquinnjr said:
Literally a guy from a tribal religion who committed a hate crime and murdered a mass of innocent homosexual civilians enjoying themselves in a night club "because his religion said this is doing God's work." The man yelled "Allah Akbar" and called 911 to state the same before committing these murders. He is not being condemned by his religion, rather celebrated within their circles, at least from what we can see online. I won't hold my breath for the religion to make a public statement separating themselves from the shooter.

The religion hates the fact that we in the US possess the freedom as Americans to act and behave however we wish to do so. The religion is not afraid to attack us and our freedoms, so why are we so afraid of them, avoiding addressing the name of the religion as I have in my post and taking the same actions and terrorizing us? Gun laws are a total cop out, if they are 100% illegal this guy finds a way to get a gun and act as his religion instructs him to do so, so stop it.

That's what I'm tired of.
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top of my news feed had a bunch of articles about US muslims publicly condemning this, so that part of your post is a bit surprising to me.

 
Ilov80s said:
My entire adult life has been with cable and social media so I don't know, but you really think people were more caring or more positive  50  years ago?
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Social media does provide a way for like minded people to be networked and a way to make their voice much louder than if they were more isolated.  With a certain level of connectedness to others, many become more emboldened and feel a sense of validation for their ideology.

 
AAABatteries said:
This is one area where I agree with Tim - the majority of people are good.  I know it doesn't seem that way, especially if you watch cable or local news but for me I interact with lots of people every day and virtually all of them are nice, decent people.  It sucks that the small few that are evil get the headlines but I try to focus on the good in people.
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Go to inner cities and get back to us, lot of evil folks and many of the folks that appear nice have other sides to them. 

I don't feel like most people do the right thing, that's why we have police to begin with. Humans cannot be trusted, sorry.  I wish it weren't that way, wish I weren't so jaded about it. 

 
El Floppo said:
top of my news feed had a bunch of articles about US muslims publicly condemning this, so that part of your post is a bit surprising to me.
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All I see is people ranting about gun laws. I don't want to debate guns here or related to this story, because that is not the root issue here and is an obfuscation from what I believe is the real issue, and is people just using this event to politicize, which is disgusting IMO on both sides.

The root issue  and catalyst is the religion of the people who are attacking our civilians on our soil, and what we do as a nation next. I want to see President Obama address the fact that this was an act of terrorism and stop hiding behind gun laws, which is him politicizing this event in an election year. Want to lock up the next 8 years in office for your party, Mr. President in an overwhelming landslide? Take this event head on and tell me that you're cutting off trade and no longer writing checks to the middle east nations that would support these actions, or at least not publicly condemn then. That's the hard conversation he's avoiding, and that's a true show of strength for his party that no amount of campaigning could ever achieve.

 
The hate explodes when people have the realization that a few people run the World and we are simply puppets in their way of running things. Social media and the internet has shed a light on the suppression put upon much of the Earth over basically money and control of the World's money supply. 

There was a time when people traded goods or used money to simply buy and sell things. Once folks figured out a way to earn interest or create money out of thin air, things slowly eroded from that point on. The inability for most countries to print their own money or allow a World Bank to do it for them has led to dire consequences for most folks on Earth. 

 
ShamrockPride said:
Sometimes I wonder how big a part technology, social media, 24/7 news, etc has played in all this.
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A huge part.  The hate was always there but it was contained so not many people felt it. With 24-7 news and social media it is brought right to our TVs, computers and phones non-stop. The haters now have a forum that was non existent 15-20 years ago.  If you read a blurb in a newspaper that someone got his head cut off in Iraq you would think that is not good.  Now you see a video of it you think "Holy ####"  this is barbaric..what is wrong with these people.

 
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do not fault the successful participant in a flawed system; try instead to discern and rebuke that aspect of its organization that allows or encourages the behavior.

 
crime overall is way, way, down.  reporting on crime is way, way, WAY up.

smoke, fire, something something something

 
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