What's So Bad About Hate?

What role should policy makers play in helping lower hate crimes?

What are the aggressors’ mental states that could lead up to hateful behavior?  How does one’s psychological condition impact the onset of hateful acts?

How can the general population influence the spread of a holistic outlook regarding the political and religious preference, sexuality, and other personal conditions of individuals?

            An intense emotion that has had significant involvement in many historical pitfalls is hatred. Hateful thoughts and behavior often result from various societal or personal biases, psychological distress, or family influences. Essentially, one role that society members can play in preventing themselves from spreading misconceptions and prejudice is to surpass the limitations imposed by hating other individuals (Sullivan 7). Although critics may disagree with communal involvement, one must not forget that individuals can also play an active role in overcoming hate. In the author’s discussion of the historical influence of hate, the reader reflects the author’s notion that making generalizations is a common aspect of existence (Sullivan 1). However, this should not be an excuse for legitimizing hateful behavior. For example, minority groups that are victimized for their cultural origin, such as the Jewish people during the Nazi era or sixteenth century African American slaves, should not be ignored. In these circumstances, society members and policy makers must take an active role in ensuring that such groups are treated with equality and fairness as set forth in the Constitution. Next, a vast field of research today is the role that the mind can play on hateful crimes. Contributions made by the government and other private donors are essential to supporting these efforts as many are gruesome acts and can have detrimental effects on affected societies. The fear that can be created in targeted communities can have long-lasting effects and sheds light on the need for a collaborative effort concerning these issues. Sullivan discusses an example of the psychological influences on hatred when mentioning the obsessive dispositions that the Hutu regime had in murdering minority groups (Sullivan 3). The Hutu group romanticized the danger that the Tutsis imposed. This example of the Hutu’s behavior is characteristic of how distasteful thoughts of a group of people can influence their hostility towards another group. An individual’s family culture may also impact one’s preference in social matters. For instance, many Muslim families believe that heterosexuality should be the only viable option for mankind. The result of this impractical and narrow-sighted vision is that young homosexual minorities feel pressured to follow their family or cultural wishes in conforming to the norm. These youth often benefit from societal support to join them in overcoming prejudice and this can certainly improve their overall quality of life. Ultimately, the general population needs to approach hate and associated consequences in an eclectic manner to protect the common good of society.

Works cited:

Sullivan, Andrew. “What’s so bad about hate?” The New York Times Magazine. 26 Sep. 1999: n. pag. Print. 

1.Why is Camille Paglia hating Lady Gaga so much?

2. How can Lady Gaga be not a good piano player while she went to NY University Tisch School of Art?

3. what is the writer's scale when criticizing her?

       As a singer and not a fan of Lady Gaga, I was shocked by reading the article. I thought the writer is an enemy of Lady Gaga. Pagila says that she did not perform well on BBC1's live performance of “My Poker Face". How could this be possible while she was one of the twenty people accepted in NY University Tisch School of Art. 

     Producers and music companies do advertising to sell their products by making super stars. But I think people who listen to the music have also a taste that makes one singer a more successful one. Not only listener’s taste matters, but also there is an epidemic fever among the youth to imitate their friends.

     Besides all these, I appreciate Lady Gaga in one thing, her courage to do what she wants to do. She has a mind that is not abandoned by the rules and frameworks. She does what she wants to. She is a brave woman in my opinion, someone who has followed her dreams, no matter what others think about it.

Pagila says her songs are depthless. Lady Gaga is a pop singer and population is the one who should like her or not. Her song lyrics might not seem very deep and literate, but that is wh at comes out of her mind new and creative. I like the beat and rhythm of her songs.

          Pagila thinks she is following Madona. But I think she is very creative and new. I also believe that some people resist against new creations and inventions, even in the field of art and music. In my point of view Pagila is one of those who cannot look outside the box and free her mind. At the end, even if we do not like or favor something new, we have the right not to like it, but I do not appreciate criticizing it in such a way that Pagila did to Lady Gaga. All of us have the right to do what we like to do. Here is the link to my first song and the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6SUDTN-wVw

not a follower not a leader

not good news

not a hi not a farewell,

not black not white

not as you say, neither as you think

and not as what has been written

not from sky not from earth

not a slave , and not imprisoned

not a slave of any religion

not a mirage, not a glass of wine for a lonely heart

not hell and not heaven

this is my nature

i'm the center of universe

hidden or visible

you don't know you are the center of love

you are full of secrets

you are the whole world

Is Google making us stupid?
I- Does deep reading come naturally? How?
II- How do you expect one to read and research like years ago while the pace of life has changed a lot?
III- How is it possible to make a machine more intelligent than humans?

I want to start with a quote from Benjamin Franklin. He says in his linguistics book, " tell me and I will forget. Teach me and I will remember. Involve me and I will learn." i agree with what he said but it needs to be adjusted to our life style now.

The writer believes that the deep reading comes naturally. But I think reading is an skill that should be learned. In our modern life that people are running to be able to be done with all their tasks by the end of the day, how can we expect the old way of getting information? It is not the time to spend hours in libraries to find books, read them all to find a topic of interest. We should avoid spending time on finding the information we need while someone else has already spent it. I think speed in getting the information is different from processing and keeping the gathered information stored in mind. Our mind is like an empty room. We can order what we need to arrive by an ordinary or express mail; but when we have the things ordered, we need to put them in the right place. So the data can be reached anytime they are needed in a short time. I agree with what Benjamin Franklin says about learning completely. But I think we need to update it to present. We need to involve our brain and learn how to process and store the data in the right place. Neuron connections are like a network; the more ties and more treads, the stronger the network. When a new data inters our brain, it should be processed and related to some old connections of data. This is what we need to learn these days instead of spending time on getting the information.

Our brain is like a computer. There is input, processor and output. By using the search engines and internet, we have shortened the time to spend on getting the input. But the main part is the processing and putting the output in the right place. Does not matter how fast we get the information. What matters is connecting the data with as many old data as possible and make it meaningful. So the involving part of Benjamin Franklin’s quote should be done in this part of the process.