Indifferences Between Hatred And The Western World

Racism is one of the biggest problems today. As we look back, a considerable measure of our history is based on racial discrimination, hatred, and African Americans being treated as slaves. The Shadow of Hate revolves around a history of intolerance in America, and how the origins of race affected American people. The Shadow of Hate was an eye opener as it shows how the native Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, Jews, and Hispanics were treated back in the days. In this paper, I am going to summarize the documentary and compose my perspectives on what I think about it.

Hatred can have severe implications. Bothered by a government and monarchy that did not seem to be concerned with its people and their rights, the people had to take a stand of their own. As Kant wrote, they no longer wanted to be “minors.” They wanted to overcome “laziness and cowardice” and free themselves from “external guidance” (Kant, par. 2).

If one hates someone or something that means they have an intense dislike towards them. Sometimes this hate can be so large it can be an influence for mass destruction. We have learned, or even have seen examples of hate turning into something bigger throughout our history. These examples include the multiple wars, terrorist’s attacks, and genocides. Many of these incidents were drove by hate, and did not end well. What drives this hate? How can people turn on one another with just feeling hate towards them? The Holocaust being one of the many genocides in our history was indeed influenced by an intense dislike. That intense dislike was towards certain types of people it ended up taking multiple lives.

Indifference is the main factor that allows fanatics to do what they strive to accomplish. Wiesel argues that indifference, rather than hate, is the opposite of love. The oppressor, instead of seeing the victim as an actual person, sees them as someone of unimportance. In Night, the SS officers would say “Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!” (Night 19) to force the Jews to move even though they were exhausted and deprived of energy. Although this might have seemed cruel, the Nazis did not regard this as an “abusive act” because they were unconcerned for the Jews and only cared about their own well-being. What sets fanatics apart from victims and bystanders is that they have no feelings of compassion, and therefore cannot place themselves in the shoes of the victims. Furthermore, in the article Wiesel analyzes the mind of a fanatic and why they decide to perform extreme actions. Wiesel claims that fanatics are “immune to doubt and to hesitation” (Wiesel par. 9), proving that the mind of a fanatic feels no emotion, no sense of morality, and has twisted ethics. Fanatics are driven on indifference and for that reason, most of their actions are

Confucius once explain that, "An Oppressive government is to be feared more than a tiger". Ideally, a political system that has been formed on hatred and torment is a system that will be feared enough to be followed, but not forever. George Orwell 's 1984 was published in 1949 during the heated conflict of Word War II and consists of a government known as the Party which symbolizes the totalitarian governments of the war. This fictional novel depicts Orwell 's hypothesis of what the world would eventually be like if the totalitarianistic governments of his time we 're not abolished. The novel itself does not clarify the fall of the hate-driven Party, but the appendix describes the eventual death of this government. Much like Nazi Germany and Communist Russia of World War II, the Party is fictional proof that a government developed off of hate and fear would become painfully immoral and inhumane but would never infinitely survive.

doesn't want others to do the same. Hatred is a strong feeling, it can be hard to control, but

Another quote by Elie Wiesel states,” The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference.” In many ways individuals would prefer to be hated than not cared about or looked upon as insignificant. Every individual has some significance. Whether they have good or bad intentions, they have intentions regardless. If someone is despised they are at least acknowledged. In World History class we discussed the indifference of an astounding number of countries during World War II. Many would turn their heads away and act as if they knew nothing was going on. Disregarding an obvious crime is playing it safe, and it usually only takes a small amount of bravery to change the world.

In their article, Polemic of Hate: How Mainstream Political Discourse Fueled the Growth in White Supremacy 2007-2012, authors Hicks and Hicks set out to show how the hate-filled political rhetoric during the election and presidency of President Obama increase the memberships to white supremacy groups. Hicks and hicks also bring attention to how their [white supremacy group’s] increase popularity allows them to make donations to political parties and campaigns, furthering their membership expansion. This article covers the various groups that have contribute to far right-wing campaigns thought to take over the political climate by inciting the public, creating smear campaigns, and using scare tactics to get the masses against our first biracial

The face of Islam in western society has changed in light of the recent Paris attacks on November 13, 2015. Muslims in Canada are effectively trying to distance themselves from the extremist group associated with the Paris attacks. Due to the prejudice response to the attacks, Muslim Canadians are speaking up against the extremist group ISIS as written in the article by Sheema Khan in the national newsprint ‘The Globe and Mail’. The title of this article is “In the fight against terrorism, Muslims must own their message”, The Globe and Mail, 18 November 2015 (http://bit.ly/1lNjmYr).

reliant on people for everything of their lives are being tossed into the wild to conflict for

Hate plays a role in the life of many people today leading the argument whether hate is acceptable in everyday life. Hate allows nothing but pain and suffering to continue on and feuds to continue through time. Hate is a lifestyle, lived by the people of today's society that don't have the courage to stand up for what is right. Hate allows for people to persecute and discriminate without much reason or cause allowing for these people to not change their ideas and adapt to the world ahead. Hate is not acceptable and should not be tolerated, but in today's world this is a diminishing view as ideas of segregation of people by religion, race, ethnicity, culture and many other factors is very common. The argument should

Hate and prejudice among people has been there all along human history. In the United States, it continued with those who hold the majority of resources and power and control the social institutions, government, education and business. But we can say that the United States has taken a leap toward changes that can be view as optimistic of acceptance of everybody despite everyone’s differences. The vast majority of citizens have a progressive positive interaction with people of different cultures and ethnicities. But there are small extremist groups that have the means and know how to manipulate information to induce fear in people’s minds about someone who is different. The people in power in the nation who fear of losing that power create

The country is incomplete without power. The more the government gets away with harming civilians the stronger the regime of war is. Starting a war is comfortable to the government because it has been done before and “worked”. The idea of the governments the faith of the people in the country should never be broken and betrayal of the people would break the regime. War is tough but surprisingly takes a long period of hell to

If one does not let go of hatred, then it will cloud one’s heart judgement and actions and for some, the want for vengeance that comes with it may consume one’s morality. With regards to the effects of hatred, the protagonist in Guy de Maupassant's “Old Milon” demonstrates the quality of spitefulness with his actions. After the death of his father and son, Old Milon starts to feel resentment towards the Uhlan soldiers as a whole, regardless of the individual and expiate their deaths by killing Uhlan soldiers. Before his first murder, Old Milon was consumed by his hatred of the Prussian soldiers and as a result, he did not take into account that the soldiers he targeted were essentially innocent, Old Milon was able to unwaveringly and violently swing his scythe without hesitation. In addition to his clouded judgement,

All these important questions about terror and insecurity are a considerable part of the subject of international politics. In this regard, scholars have dedicated decades for understanding the relations between states in political, economic, social, and other