Racism

http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/11/net_hate/index.html


This web page talks about the racism that the United States shows toward Muslim and Arab people. Just because some people of those races did something bad does not mean that every single one of them are bad. Janelle Brown, the author of the article talks about Craig's List which is San Francisco Bay's largest online community. Craig's List is supportive of the non-racist view, but many people say extremely racist things on it. One person said "Purge our society of these rodents." How horrible is that! To speak of people in terms of rodents is absolutely horrible. No human begin no matter what has happened in the past should be thought of in those terms. Murders happen every day that deal with white and African American people and the whole race is not looked at as murders so why should the Muslim and Arab races be looked at in that way. Don't get me wrong I know that there are many people of those races that hate Americans and dream about doing bad things to them, but not all of them are like that. Furthermore, I'm sure that there are tons of Americans who look at Muslim and Arab people and want to hurt them, but not all Americans are that way. I think, to end violence, we need to end hatred. We have forgiven the Germans for the Holocaust; it is now time to forgive these races for their mistakes. Also written on the page was a warning to Muslims and Arabs to leave the country for their own sake. There is no reason what so ever to punish someone that has been living in the United States, maybe their whole life, and who had nothing to do with anything that has been happening. If they live in this country, most likely they are patriotic and love it here. This means that they most likely would not do anything to harm their fellow Americans. Another comment made in this article was that they wanted to annihilate any country that wronged America. This goes back to the fact that we can not punnish an entire race for something that a group of people did. On a lighter note however, someone posted the comment "The only antidote to terrorism--hate-- is love." This is such a wonderful comment and it is my view point on the whole matter. The only way to end all of this crap is to forgive and forget. Without these two components the world will be at war forever.

Overall, this website brings to attention some major issues online about war and racism. It talks about a blog site that has a wide variety of users: some who hate Arabs and Muslims, and some who don't. I feel like this makes a better site. It is just an interesting way to look at things that are going on in and outside of our country.