Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
http://www.policymic.com/articles/71381/let-the-kkk-speak-it-s-the-best-way-to-shut-them-up
The writer gives us a great principle for how we can deal with the the hate or violence groups. This principle is not taken seriously in many countries in the world including my country. The meaning of this principle is explained in the quote "the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market". The hate always accompanies ignorance because people get against the hate as well as they learn more. Therefore, the hate groups often introduce a speech that lacks logical basics and convincing ideas. The hate groups usually attract the others by emotional speech that contains abuse stories happening in the past or ideological ideas such as religious ideas and community customs. Consequently, the best solution for the hate speech is that let them speak. The emotional speech is very weak in front of logical speech, and even though people believe the emotional speech for short time, they will change to the logic because emotions don't last long time. In my country, many religious men try to make Sunnis hate Shias despite living in one homeland. Also, they call to hate the Liberals and the other cultured people who against them. These men control the places where the religious speech is released to people in general. In addition, my country doesn't have free press, so the press doesn't have impact on people. However, when social media such as Facebook and Twitter became popular in my country, this situation was changed rapidly. Many celebrities in many fields ranging from religion, politics, economy to sports. Further, social media has made many cultured people celebrities and have hundred thousands of followers. As a result, people started listening from many sides and having the ability to choose one of them. Finally, the hate speech began to diminish and many people regretted believing this speech. Beside that, the logical speech attracted many people and the celebrities in social media started to have impact as well as the religious men have before.
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