Humans are Humans! Can't We Drop This Superiority Complex Already?

It's understandable to focus life and efforts on the self, family and circle of friends. However those outside of this focus still deserve to be able to live their lives, especially when they are following the Non Aggression Principle themselves. These people deserve to not be harassed (which is border line aggression in itself) especially by others that have zero first hand knowledge of their actual situation. There is no way hearsay and other third hand knowledge can trump that of the person with first hand experience of an issue. Being white, I can't tell an African American about how they themselves feel or expect my thoughts on the matter to overshadow what they themselves have directly lives through. Have enough respect for these people that they know their own lives, without simply thinking, I read something in a book or once heard such and such, so I can tell them how to live their lives.

For example, I recently received a comment demeaning LGBTQ people in general, essentially implying that they deserved to be killed in horrific ways and that any story about this community was required to be included under the NSFW category.


Of course this person isn't a part of the LGBTQ community. Nor had they ever had first hand knowledge of living with such sexual orientation/gender identity and how they are treated by society. The vast majority of the society around me treats this community with respect, but the nut-jobs, bigots and those who try to make themselves feel more superior by putting down, harassing or inciting violence are always on our radar. This is knowledge really only acquired by first hand knowledge, not third hand preconceived notions.

It's funny how these nut-jobs play the victim complaining that topics they don't like are being shoved in their face...yet it's on MY BLOG. If they're following me, that's their doing. If they saw it in a list of posts, THEY clicked on it. If they sought of the LGBT tag, again THEIR doing. But no, they have to play the victim. It's absolutely ridiculous to think that a topic such as this needs to be hidden inside the NSFW area, in fact it's a case in point of why such exposure is important to actually RAISE AWARENESS.

Writing articles and giving insight into the lives of people with completely different first hand experience is important. It's how we are able to give a glimpse beyond the news clips and rhetoric spewed by many. Expecting anything that makes you uncomfortable to be hidden away behind closed doors is not only a sad view to have, it's dangerous. Life is a constant game of finding out What we don't know and requiring contrary information to be hidden away directly does against this goal. If taking on new information or perspectives doesn't fit your model of things, maybe it's time to update your model rather than play the child sticking their fingers in their ears screaming "NANANANANA, I'm not listening to you."

If you're uncomfortable seeing new information and perspectives, that's your problem, not mine. Harassing someone because you happened to click on it, is just plain ridiculous. You're the problem, not the victim.

This same concept generalizes out well beyond aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity, such as sex, race, religion, nationality, political affiliation, the list goes on. If we truly want to progress as a world, we ALL need to be able to listen to people who are experts of their situation. A man can't really know what it's like to be a woman in society, they may have some ideas, but it's not the same as living it and having those imprints established.

Listen to people in different situations. They are the first hand experts of their lives!

A human deserves human respect and it's high time for the bigots and haters out there to get over themselves. I'm sorry that you're full of fear that you might not know everything. I'm sorry that you can't just keep trying to cram a square peg into a round hole frustrated that it just doesn't work. I'm sorry that you watched the Jerry Springer show for years so you could tell yourself, "At least I'm better than them" to make yourself feel better. Those who troll others or put them down just to try and convince yourself that you're superior are the true bane of society. They actually get enjoyment on some level by putting others down. These are the people who should be banished into the NSFW area or worse.

I have no respect for those whose sole method of furthering themselves is by putting others down.

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