Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Here Comes The Hate

Friday, August 14, 2015

Here Comes The Hate

It seems like whenever we are in the news or TV it brings out the hate mongers.

New transgender reality star gets ambushed by death threats (VIDEO)
I Am Jazz reveals absolutely disgusting Internet hate for the transgender community
SheKnows
By Christina Marfice
August 13, 2015

Being an Internet celebrity comes with a definite dark side.

And for a transgender celeb, it's even darker, as shown on Wednesday's episode of I Am Jazz, a new reality show following the life of transgender teen Jazz Jennings.

In a clip from the episode, 14-year-old Jazz is showing her brothers, Sander and Griffin, some of her YouTube videos. Some of the videos have racked up nearly 200,000 views, along with hundreds of comments. The three siblings start reading through the comments left by viewers.

"I'm pretty sure everything there is to know about me has been written online, whether it's in comments or articles or anything," Jazz says to the camera. "I think some of these people know more about me than I know about myself."

The comments start off pretty harmless. One commenter tells Jazz that it isn't "natural" to have to shave her legs as often as she does. The next one is a little more harsh.

"Sad that the devil is tricking you into believing that you are meant to be a girl," Jazz reads aloud from the screen.

The comments also has death threats and the article also asks for comments about the comments, at least those comments were friendly and not hateful.

As one commenters says, “These ‘keyboard warriors’ are so brave hidden behind their computers.” I try not to read comments because anonymous comments seem to bring out the worst in humanity and I am glad that many of my TV interviews or news article do not allow comments.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Friday, August 14, 2015

Here Comes The Hate

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