Shoot If You Hate...

Shoot If You Hate…..

The recent shooting in a Tennessee Unitarian Universalist Church only serves to remind us that today’s solution to discomfort is to kill somebody. Used to be we’d kick the dog when things got bad, but now, we grab a gun and kill somebody we think is different from us.

So, yeah, let’s shoot if we hate:

Gays—16 percent of hate crimes target gays. That leaves a lot of folks, tho doesn’t it? Jeez, what if you’re one of “these” people:?

Jews-- Almost 70 percent of anti-religious hate crimes are commited against Jews. Compared to “only” 11 percent against Muslims (2006 FBI statistics), a number that has risen sharply since 9/11. There are hate crimes on record against almost every religion on earth. Jews really ate it before and during WWII, not to mention all of history before that. 6 million and counting. Jewish and gay? So sorry. How about Wiccan? Nine million and still counting. Makes being a Unitarian seem as safe as nurseries.

Races--niggers, spicks, slant-eyes, kikes, squaws, the list goes on, but now that we’re so politically correct, Goggle doesn’t provide a list of the words that were so popular only a generation ago. Race-based hate crimes accounted for 55 percent of all hate crimes in the U.S. in 2006. Sixty percent of all offenders were white. Good to know who the superior race is, isn’t it?

Being poor—37 million Americans are below the Federal poverty line, and believe me, folks, that is some kind of poor. Nearly a third of Americans are living from day to day, paycheck (or none) to paycheck. Now, there’s a lot of folks to hate…including oneself.

Being unemployed—current statistics say that 5.5 percent of Americans are unemployed. During the Great Depression, nearly a quarter of Americans were unemployed. That was then, this is now. During the Depression, most women did not work, nor were they seeking work, and therefore not counted in the unemployment statistics. Now, both men and women are working or seeking work. The numbers cannot really be compared, as society has changed so much. Suffice it to say that more and more people are underemployed or unemployed, and soft landings are becoming more and more rare.

Children—we may not think of crimes against children as being hate crimes, but how else can you explain child abuse, child molestation, kidnapping, beatings, and child murder? These aren’t hate crimes against the child victims as much as they are hate crimes against the perpetrator—who suffered as a child and who passes the violence along against others. Hate yourself? Kill somebody.

Women—the biggest losers of all. God has hated women ever since Eve, and all the good Christian men learned that lesson well. Not to mention all the Muslim men, the Jewish men, the Atheist men, the Islamic men, the men who have been charged with making the world a place where men are MEN and women are dirt. One-third of all women on earth are harmed because they are women—the biggest hate-crime of all.

Of all the species on earth, only humans hate ourselves, devour ourselves, seek to rub ourselves out. No other species goes to the extent that we do. Not black widow spiders, not crocodiles, not sharks, not bears, not lemmings, not cougars, not viruses, not bacteria, not one other living species on this planet seeks to rub out its own. Just humans—the human race, the folks who have been charged by our various and different gods to take care of the planet and each other. What the fuck!?