Quote Originally Posted by Iambreathingin
Just now I read somones personal comment on YouTube, the thing that's on their profile everyone reads.

It read:

Western civilization ROCKS - the Middle East is backwards and SUCKS - Islam is EVIL and needs to be destroyed!!!


Now, I've learned gradually to accept stupidity, and ignorance, but I am really having trouble when I read somthing like this. How can somone be filled with so much blind hate? He has a right to think whatever bullshit he likes, but how do we have a world that would allow people to develop mindsets like this?

I live in London and on the way home today saw a 13 year old boy (or he looked it) screaming in the face of an old man for no apparnt reason. I grabbed him and told him to back off, asking why he was doing it, and he pulled a knife on me and spat at me (but thankfully missed). He was shaking like a leaf. I asked "Kid what the hell are you doing man, just be cool c'mon" when he just said "Fuck you" and ran off...

I am seriously have a difficult time accepting the world right now. On one level I am sort of impartial to all I see on a "stuff is happening" level. It's got me good at switching off when bosses/teachers/cock ends are having a go at me for no reason, or even dealing with some dark times/events, but it's hard for me to understand why anyone would seek to increase suffering in this world, be it real or illusion...

If anyone could offer some words of wisdom or advice I'd appreciate it greatly. I'm abit upset.

-Rob
The reason this person has this view is because he/she has listened to too much of the bullshit on the media. He's been brainwashed, simple as that. We're all the way on the other side of the world from Islamic nations. Really, the only information we have on them in the mainstream media are the lies and propaganda, used to support the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the kind of propaganda that is used to inflict fear and subsequently hate on certain people. This person has never done his/her research on the subject, and has only listened to what the government and media has to say.

The idea is to ignore this, or if you can't ignore it, take it upon yourself to educate them about it. People need to realize that our news and media is not a good source for valid information. Most of it is filled with propaganda to sway your opinion in the favor of whoever is trying to convey the message. Remember, the media is controlled by only a handful of people. It's pretty much all propaganda, and it has even reached our movies and television shows. The idea is to take whatever is said with a grain of salt. To get real information you need to dig deeply, and you should use the Internet to do that. While you shouldn't believe everything on the Internet either, there is valid information.

Like I said, to deal with ignorance you need to snap the person out of the ignorance. Open them up. These people are usually very narrow-minded, and think they know what's going on in the world, but actually have no idea. You don't want to try and tell them they're ignorant, though... because the denial of one's ignorance is part of ignorance.