Hello, I was recently on Facebook and saw a comment someone made on a group and it gave me inspiration to drop my other two articles I was working on to write an article about it and you get to be the first to read it until ViewsHound accepts or rejects it.
THE UPDATE:
It was just published not long ago, along with the RMS Atlantic poem which will be a sure loss. Wish me luck ;)
**First some background information**:
I was attempting to write my next article to submit to *ViewsHound* and decided to take a break and go on *Facebook* and there is a group on there that you can 'like' called "When I was your age, I was raising Pokemon, not babies" which I originally thought was just a page you click like and never see again but I was wrong, this actually it more about world news and things and the person who runs this page wrote:
*64% of Pakistanis didn't want Osama Bin Laden to die, 84% don't like the U.S...yet we give them BILLIONS of dollars in aid.*
Now that doesn't seem all that bad right? Well I had no problem with that, it was the comments people left towards the people of Pakistan including
"*they dont diserve a PENNY from us. Yay lest support the terrorists then send our troops over to be killed by the guns, mines, and bombs THAT WE payed for. lets destroy em and build em back up! what they shud do is nuke them mother f**ks and TAKE their oil.*"
I obviously responded back with a fairly long paragraph - and proper spelling - mainly about his insensitivity towards the people of Pakistan and greed of some Americans. But have we as humans lost our way of being humane?
First, we have never been strangers to being inhumane towards other people. We've been torturing, killing, burning and pillaging since we were just starting out as a race and we still are even today. The first example I could think of about nuking a country was Japan back in 1945 after the USA dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as revenge for Pearl Harbour. They obviously killed thousands of innocent men, women and children on that day which was most definitely a disregard to the people of Japan and Japanese people living in North America. Another example was the My Lai Massacre where American soldiers purposely killed innocent civilians by shooting them no matter who they were, even children, babies, and elders were murdered. This massacre also involved rape, beatings, torture and mutilation.
Two classic examples of insensitivity towards other cultures, Japan and Vietnam. If you watched old episodes from Looney Toons from the '30s and beyond you could also see racism and stereotypes towards everyone from Asians (a couple shorts about Japanese people), Blacks (Blackface), and Mexicans (Speedy Gonzales). I like to categorize insensitivity into two categories: Hatred, so you would rather want them dead, and Humour, just finding the comedy in stereotypes. Both are wrong in their own ways sure, but one is just to try and take the edge off of a serious topic and find the humour rooted in it.
Back on topic. This guy who posted the comment is wanting to send nuclear missiles to Pakistan and basically kill everyone there, innocent or not, young or old and then take the oil for their own "need" because Pakistan is just there, no one likes them so we don't need them or I assume these are his views anyway.
There was also that "Slut Walk" people were going on because of a police officer who said that if women didn't dress the way they did they wouldn't get raped, that's an example of insensitivity towards women here at home.
I personally believe that we as humans are most definitely turning insensitive towards others because of age, gender, etc. and we must battle this so we can finally live in peace with everyone without more bloodshed and emotional scars.
If they do reject it, I will be posting revised versions of this story because that's what it is, a story and not really an article.
Stay thirsty my friends ;)
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