Terrorists, funsters and all the other nice people

[Uncwilly]

2 "mass shootings" in one day, 355 for 2015

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

See also:

http://www.slate.com/articles/double...terrorism.html

and

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a..._carolina.html

The world is going (not so quietly) crazy.

Now people are finding it necessary to spew hatred toward fat people:

http://www.today.com/news/fat-shamin...t-these-t59196

It seems that too many people these days are anxious to spew some kind of hateful message towards
some group of people. Is this yet more tribalism? Or is it just people spewing hate in any direction
they can because they are dissatisfied with their own pathetic lives??

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

The world is going (not so quietly) crazy.

Now people are finding it necessary to spew hatred toward fat people:

I *hate* people who do that kind of stuff.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

I *hate* people who do that kind of stuff.

What do you call someone who hates bigots?

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by chalsall

What do you call someone who hates bigots?

Moral?
Rational?
Intelligent?

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

It seems that too many people these days are anxious to spew some kind of hateful message towards
some group of people. Is this yet more tribalism? Or is it just people spewing hate in any direction
they can because they are dissatisfied with their own pathetic lives??

Interesting questions!
My guess is that your final suggestion hits the mark. People who hate others are indeed dissatisfied with their own lives, and they feel low self-esteem. One effective way of repairing one's self-esteem is to deflect the negativity from oneself to others. That results in a feeling of superiority, which temporarily relieves oneself of the feeling of being inadequate.

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by Brian-E

Interesting questions!
My guess is that your final suggestion hits the mark. People who hate others are indeed dissatisfied with their own lives, and they feel low self-esteem. One effective way of repairing one's self-esteem is to deflect the negativity from oneself to others. That results in a feeling of superiority, which temporarily relieves oneself of the feeling of being inadequate.

I have said the same thing in other threads.

[Xyzzy]

http://www.wtvm.com/story/30780459/a...ial-assignment

"When I saw the language, the Arabic language, immediately, I had a bad feeling come over me," concerned parent Kimberly Herndon told WVIR.

[Xyzzy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b06fa6887cdc1f

"She should be FIRED for that," Herndon wrote. "She should be fired because she had them write an abomination to their faith and causes a little girl to cry herself to sleep because she was worried she had denounced her God."

[kladner]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b06fa6887cdc1f

Such virulent hate from the self-professed "stand(ers) behind Jesus."

Jesus better watch his back.

"She should be FIRED for that," Herndon wrote. "She should be fired because she had them write an abomination to their faith and causes a little girl to cry herself to sleep because she was worried she had denounced her God."

I wonder if the "little girl" cried herself to sleep because her raging zealot mother told her that she had renounced her god.

[retina]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b06fa6887cdc1f

If we'd stop teaching children that magical mythical beings are real then none of this would be a problem. Wake up people, it is all a huge scam. See it for what it is.