| Edellus said: I don't think that man understands what Trump promised as for immigration and muslims. AFAIK, he promised to ban immigration from certain nations where radical islam is believed to have a worrying amount of support (Libya, Somalia, Iraq, etc.). Considering that woman is already in the US and working at the JFK (so pressumably an already legal immigrant), she shouldn't be affected by Trump's new policies. I wonder if he lost a friend to a terrorist attack, has lived too long with terrorist attacks fear or something of the like that could have caused him to be this prejudicial and hateful towards any muslim. I don't believe this level of hate grows out of nowhere. |
Actually this level of hate usually grows out of being frustrated with your own life and searching for a convinient scrapegoat. Usually, a group of people they themselves have had little to no exposure to get sacrificed. The media might help with a bit of scary reporting here and there.
It's usually the most homogeneous parts of society that are the most racist, for example. Whereas people who have had actual exposure to diffrent ethnecities/cultures are usually more accepting and tolerant. It makes sense if you think about it, you wouldn't want to think of your nice neighbor or the lovely shop assistant as the bad guy, causing all problems in your life, now if that neighbor happens to be chinese and the shop assistant a muslim you kinda don't have a reason to think all of them are rotten. But if you're from an area where all the people surrounding you are from your own ethnicity and culture the jump to thinking all people that differ from you in ways that feel alienating to you must be ruining your life is much smaller, however little actual evidence there may be for it.
Obviously if you have the need to focus your frustration on a group of people as a whole you're also not that prone to intelligent thought, reflection and differentiation anyways and would not like to look at your own failures or the systems failures as causes of your frustration either. A lot of these people have been failed by the US education system wich does not provide any challenge to their views either.
I'm not saying it's impossible he's had bad expieriences with muslims before, but for the majority of hate crimes it's highly unlikely that a tragic backstory drove them to do it. People who gay bash have not all been raped by gay men and the people who strung black people into trees have not had their children abducted by black people either. They were just frustrated people with a sense of entilement and superiority scared of loosing their superior rights or lashing out at something to blame their frustrations on.
