Why is there so much hate in the world? There is no logical reason behind it. Yesterdays class, Mr. B showed us a window display that happens to be in our own school. This window display has a symbol that we all know and call a swastika. This symbol used to represent peace. After the Holocaust many are scared of this symbol, including me. This window display has not only come up in conversation in class but my friends and I also talked about it. There are symbols that are okay to show, but this symbol is not one of them. Swastikas remind many of how the world was during World War 2. This symbol represents the millions of people killed during World War 2. So my question is why is it ok to remind our school community of that?
Symbolism is not a bad thing, especially if it doesn't offend people. Everyone has their own beliefs but if you don't believe in what someone else does why even say anything? Symbols are a way of life. There's no way of getting around them. For the protestors they believe that freedom of speech is a way of bringing others down. They have their beliefs and others have theirs. To protest against someones else beliefs is wrong and just shouldn't be aloud.
I definitely agree that symbolism is not a bad thing. However, when a symbols comes to represent a bad object, that's when the symbolism becomes malicious. Furthermore, although people have the freedom of speech, they may take their freedom to an extreme through radical protesting and inappropriate criticism. Therefore I can agree with your viewpoint against protesting one's beliefs.
ReplyDeleteI agree with basically everything you said. In a public school where a diverse group of people walk the halls they will miss the message that the GSA was trying to portray. There is emotion associated with the swastika and their message could be looked through and only the viewer's personal emotions felt.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you keri. i dont understand why there is a hate between one racial group and another. it doesnt make sense. if we took all the hate in the world we could probably fill the milky way. not good. peace begins when racial groups stop looking to other racial groups to only criticize.
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