Less Human Than Human

Almost every time someone tells you about something, you can almost guarantee that if it was a person who was different from them in any way (Because we're all the same, right?), they will be sure to emphasize the differences.

This black guy went crazy at the store the other day.
Some Mexican cut in front of me at the gas station.
This gay dude was on TV talking about gay rights.

I've touched this crap slightly before, but I'm doing it again really quickly. Just because a person is different from you in the slightest fashion does not make that detail an earth-shattering detail. I don't know how many jobs I've been turned down from just because I didn't look the way they wanted me to look. I don't know how many other people have gone through the same thing, and I'm more sure than not that neither do they. The level of prejudice and bigotry in this world (Yes, even your "wonderful" America. Most especially your America.) is unbelievable. Gay rights, black rights, illegal immigrants. We're all people, people. Some of us are more human than others, as I refuse to acknowledge the humanity of someone who judges a person with only one or two details about them. Westboro Baptist Church, for example, are the lowest forms of animals on the face of the planet. There is absolutely nothing human about them. Jerry Falwell, good riddance, also falls into that category. Dung beetles are better people than these cretins.

If a person can't be who they are without you hating them for it, then you are less than an animal as well. Gay, black, "illegal immigrants." There is absolutely nothing about these labels that make these people any less than human. That belongs to the individual to prove or disprove. This great American democracy handing out different degrees of "rights" to people just because of varying levels of individuality, is just embarrassing. Here we have laws preventing discrimination based on race, religion, blah, blah, blah, blah and yet the government is pulling the exact crap that it makes illegal simply because someone doesn't follow the cookie-cutter red, white and blue patriotic Christian crap that we're expected to because we're American. Trying to force everyone to share the same beliefs and take pride in them to the extent of laying down their life or else classifying them as enemies sounds an lot like a cult to me. Yeah, no wonder there are more and more people ashamed of being Americans.

Drop the labels, drop your holier-than-thou attitudes and start accepting people for who they are. We're all people, no more, no less. Only you who prove your uselessness by failing to acknowledge a simple, common sense fact, are less than that. Not the ones you judge. As such, youare the ones who should be receiving less of your distributed rights.

And by the way, your illusions of what and what are not rights are ridiculous. Every person has the right to live and live their life as makes them happy, so long as they harm no others. That is the single real right, and more often than not, you deny people that because they're different. Good show. Way to prove that this is the land of tolerance and "freedom."