A friend of one of my dearest NO friends was recently kidnapped, held for four days, brutally beaten, and most likely raped. She is in the hospital as I type this, and she has no idea why. She was beaten so badly that she has no recollection of what happened and thus doesn't know/remember who did this to her. She has no short term memory, and her face has been (quite probably) permanently rearranged. The doctors had to put her eye back in its socket.
M. suspects it was a hate crime. You see, her friend is a hermaphrodite.
It's occurrences like this that make me laugh bitterly when people call humans advanced, more evolved, civilized. I don't even have words for what I'm feeling. Why -- WHY -- do people have to be so afraid of someone different than themselves? We treasure diversity in our environment, in our diets, in most things in our lives, but we hate/fear it in our neighbors, coworkers, even our families.
"Did you hear? Cousin L. married a black man." (::gasp::)
"Oh, so the boy you're taking to the prom is Catholic?" (Armageddon is upon us!)
"Why don't you cut your hair? What? You some kinda hippie faggot?" (The horror!)
"Goddamn cripples. Why do they get to park up close?" (Just to irritate you)
What the hell did that poor woman ever do to the people who took her? And keeping her for four days?
I can't even type about it anymore.
2 comments:
This is just such a "what the hell" that I give up on humans. I don't know. I am sorry. Sorry I share the same species code - I am sure it was a hate crime too.
Why, why, why, why, why - what is WRONG with the culture here? Because it doesn't happen like this all over the world, yes, in some countries (turkey, not so good!), but other Asian countries are not a problem at all, some south African, even india. So what makes us such special screw up's of hatred?
Beth -- I have some hypotheses, but they are not for public viewing.
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