1.)
Will hate crimes ever be overcome?
2.)
Are hate crimes becoming better or worse with time?
3.)
Are hate crimes based on ignorance or pure hate?
In response
to question number one, “Will hate crimes ever be overcome?” Personally, I do
not think that hate crimes will ever be overcome and I do not think that it is
realistic to think that they will every go away. People become prejudice,
racist, and/or sexist from how they were grown up, their environment growing
up, and/or an experience they went through in their life.
Although
I do think that prejudice, racism, and sexism have become less and less in
America. I think it has to with our generation and the newer generations being
exposed to people of different color, beliefs, and sexual orientations and we
are realizing how everyone is equal and should be treated equal. People from my
generation (at least whom I’ve been around) see everyone as normal and don’t
put them into categories, so I think it is safe to say that we are slowly
progressing to a world of fewer hate crimes. But progressing to where…are we
just going to reach a point where we start to digress or to a place where we
reach a plateau? I don’t think that we will ever be able to answer these questions;
we will only be able to know once we get to the future and see for ourselves.
“For
hate is only foiled not when the haters are punished but when the hatred are
immune to the bigot’s power. A hater cannot psychologically wound if a victim
cannot psychologically be wounded. And that immunity can never be given; it can
merely be achieved,” (Sullivan, 11). I don’t think its fare that Sullivan says
this because as it is true it is not really the case. It is easy to say to not
let someone’s words get to you, but when people are saying things about your
race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc. on a daily basis how can one
not break down and take offense from the haters?
It is natural for human beings to feel
jealousy from other human beings, with jealousy comes dislike and hate.
Therefore we will always have hate crimes.
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