There are a couple of things I can't wrap my mind around. The two that perhaps should not be taken seriously are as follows:
I don't understand how some people don't like dogs. Not just a specific breed, but the whole species as a whole. This whole dog-people VS cat-people standoff has got to come to an end. As a closing line, yeah, it's pretty silly. I know some people with fears towards dogs, but I still cannot understand how one comes to not like dogs.
The other thing is Manowar. Sure, some people are not into awesome power metal, and that's cool. But I do not understand it. What sort of tragedy must scar a person so deeply that they cannot enjoy Manowar, I truly do not understand.
Okay, with those easy, light-hearted ones out of the way, we turn to the one I struggle with personally. Racism and prejudice. I can't understand what could possibly be going on inside a person's mind when they decide that someone is wrong and lesser, simply for being black, gay or somehow different. I have some unfair prejudices of my own, but I'd never act on them as such. I would never actively seek to push someone down simply for being different.
I know the whole "straight white guy telling everyone he knows someone who is gay/black/foreigner so there's no way he's a racist" routine gets old real fast, but it's the only proof I can give, not to you, but to myself in a vain attempt to deny my own racist habits. I guess somehow it's the way the media portrays certain groups. There was that news clip about the muslims in Sweden, throwing rocks at a firetruck and destroying the mansions they were given to live in. I don't know if it's all that black and white, but it still colors my views on their entire group as a whole. It's wrong, and I know it, but somehow it still happens in my mind. Why, I may never know.
I don't understand how some people don't like dogs. Not just a specific breed, but the whole species as a whole. This whole dog-people VS cat-people standoff has got to come to an end. As a closing line, yeah, it's pretty silly. I know some people with fears towards dogs, but I still cannot understand how one comes to not like dogs.
The other thing is Manowar. Sure, some people are not into awesome power metal, and that's cool. But I do not understand it. What sort of tragedy must scar a person so deeply that they cannot enjoy Manowar, I truly do not understand.
Okay, with those easy, light-hearted ones out of the way, we turn to the one I struggle with personally. Racism and prejudice. I can't understand what could possibly be going on inside a person's mind when they decide that someone is wrong and lesser, simply for being black, gay or somehow different. I have some unfair prejudices of my own, but I'd never act on them as such. I would never actively seek to push someone down simply for being different.
I know the whole "straight white guy telling everyone he knows someone who is gay/black/foreigner so there's no way he's a racist" routine gets old real fast, but it's the only proof I can give, not to you, but to myself in a vain attempt to deny my own racist habits. I guess somehow it's the way the media portrays certain groups. There was that news clip about the muslims in Sweden, throwing rocks at a firetruck and destroying the mansions they were given to live in. I don't know if it's all that black and white, but it still colors my views on their entire group as a whole. It's wrong, and I know it, but somehow it still happens in my mind. Why, I may never know.