Do not take the internet more seriously than racism.

Thanks to the continuous scrolling, I came across an interesting post. Must say that this was a total coincidence given that the post was at least a month or so old. 

It was shared by one of my friends on Facebook and all due credits should go to him for actually stepping up, confronting this woman and posting this on his feed to let us remind about what rubbish we have to surround ourselves on social media. Even though I have blurred the names in the comments section of the above screen shot, can we for a second silently acknowledge who the antagonist here is? 

I am not defending any of the religions here. I'd actually do something better with what I have to say rather than fueling hypocrisy that drains my brain.    

The long story short, my friend had merely commented a 'sad reaction' on one of her posts on Facebook, which according to her knowledge deserved a 'laugh reaction' as we could assume. This is almost immature and obviously ignorant. We have been talking about gaps of knowledge in certain grey areas like religion believes. But no one talks about how people are now very free to give almost any sort of opinion, hurtful or not, as long as they get their message across over the internet. So, if the end result brings them fame, they might as well already get to it, consequences can be dealt with later. In reality there are no consequences - few people will get blocked, the account may be reported at most and everyone will go on with their lives. 

I'd say talking about these issues are made easier because of different platforms but as soon as it rises up in a face to face conversation everyone just nods along or things become awkward. Then later you will be accused for being the 'mood kill' or rather 'do you always have to turn the conversation into a debate?' 

Why is it that the moment we talk about something realistic, you're labelled as an extremist? It doesn't have to be that way! This happens everywhere. We say the western culture is so broad and is like riding in a free way when it's actually them who have the narrowest mindsets of all. I doubt how many of you all may have believed this actually happened if not for the evidence I've shown above. It's normal to believe someone when they come up with structured answers, hardcore evidence and whatnot; when most of the things are verbal and go unseen and unheard.

This screenshot, with taking into account how sensitive this theme is at the moment, 'Being worse than a Muslim' is what we focus on. That escalated way too fast. It's as if this comment does not suit the context but it's still there anyway. As you can see she blocked my friend who tried to knock some sense but didn't work-which isn't so surprising. Well at least now, we know not to openly react on someone's post because we are all at danger of being criticized for who we are, what we believe in and let's not forget the laugh reactions on social media which apparently triggers it all.

"Are you defending just one nationality against another nationality?" 

Not really. Like I said I'm not defending anyone's belief, because I have my own. At least I don't go pitching it into everyone's mind like I'm trying to sell a product with the intention of convincing you to buy it.

Defending your religion is one thing. But going on about how it's better than anything else is completely different. 

Me being a part of a majority, would never understand the difficulty of being in the minority. But what I do know is, that measuring someone's standards through something that doesn't meet the eye is absurd. Also, posting such comments out in the open to the public shows how well some people exercise their exploiting nature against those who don't. 

Sadly, Earth will still rotate perfectly around its orbit (not around yourself) before and after your opinion. 

I know for a fact that long rants about racism isn't going to make this a convincing case. What's clear enough is how everyday politics highlight different roots of society and speak ill about our differences. I'll say media contributes to set rationality on fire. All those 'election-campaigns' that are said to 'satisfy' all the demands of the voters is myopic and is a bunch of lies. Every 'justice-for-all' thoughts go for a six and replace them with fools that fight for a cause without valid reasoning, such as 'worse than a Muslim theory' 

"Your story is one-sided" 

Quite the opposite. People have their own reason to blame something, I'm sure this woman has her own reason, surely. But don't we all have our reasons? This sort of attitude in our already crumbling society makes me sick! It's like you take your moment to say 'we are all in this together' and turn right back around and use your illogical emotions to downgrade another human. That has never been right and never will be. 

I'm not bias about anything, given that I'm also not a Muslim, would explain. But we don't need to experience something to throw a spotlight on someone who is doing the wrong thing. Having friends from different ethnic groups, I know not everyone is not to blame just because someone does something controversial which backfires on the whole community. 

This generation is stomped-on for being arrogant, violent and unappreciative, when all we've been doing is to clean up messes that was left behind for us. Just like the cast system was broken, this could be too. All we have to do is to collectively say no to racism when it takes place, not to shrug it off and say that things would be better in the future. Future is composed of now's.