If you’re going to be a hater, make sure you’ve done your homework.

One great problem by hate against others is the non-knowledge of those others. The not knowing enough of history is the second part which makes that hate crimes and socio-political situations can re-occur.

An attempt at a discrimination graphic. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A video published this weekend by a politician from Gent showed clearly how people from different communities took over words they heard adults shouting at each other. As such we do hear young Moroccans (5-10 years old) calling to have all “the Makakken (sobriquet for Moroccans) out”, dark skinned girls shouting to get all niggers or Negroes where they belong, etc.. It is quite confronting to see how those young, so called innocent toddlers and teens, call their own group of people names, not really understanding the content of such calling and the hate they would or could create with it.

The pictures clearly show how an attitude of hate or love is created by the ones responsible for the education (parents, teachers, surrounding society) of the youngsters and the next generation.

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Symbol of anti-zionizm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A 16 year old aspiring journalist in what looks like her first posting, can imagine that, for a teacher, a GCSE religious studies lesson on racism may be one of the most challenging classes to teach, especially in a school like hers; overrun with teenage girls desperate to voice their opinions in an attempt to seem more intelligent than their classmates.

She tells about her experience, which could happen in any school, she sitting in class, learning about prejudice, already pissed off having had to discuss why ‘reverse racism’ is simply just ‘racism.’

She looks at the

very link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism which racists everywhere deny they are doing. It is perfectly possible to be against the Israeli government and their brutal domestic policy, and simultaneously not be an anti-Semite.

In which she is totally right. Much too many people consider those who are against what is going on in Israel, to be anti-semitic, but they can be themselves real Jews as well as real lovers of Jews.

One of the great problems of the disturbance in relationships with Jews is that

as soon as you relate the Holocaust to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the way that has been done here, you are both insensitive and ignorant.

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Preceding articles

What to do in the Face of Global Anti-semitism

The Rise of Anti-Seminism

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Further reading

1. USA Today: Rise in hate crimes spurs launch of database and hotline
2. Daily Prompt: Instinct or Wisdom?
3. Do White Nationalist Think Brown Babies Are Destroying Our Country? Ask Dr. Karen!
4. Prejudice
5. Prejudice and the ink in my skin…
6. I am white, and I refuse to be ashamed of i
7. This Post Is For White People
8. Acting Black…
9. The Irony of Prejudice
10. What I Now Know About My Own Prejudices
11. My Multi-Cultural Childhood Could be the Answer to Racism & Xenophobia
12. Reverse Racism Doesn’t Exist
13. Does reverse racism exist?
14. The Truth About Reverse Racism
15. What is reverse-discrimination?
16. Liberalism has lost all perspective #reverseracism
17. You can be a dickhead no matter your race, religion or sexuality
18. public education, passing, #womensday2017, all for Prompt Night on A Dash of Sunny
19. Complexity
20. Is being racist against racists racism?
21. Students Report Being Triggered by the Word “Trigger”
22. High School Evacuated Due to Presence of “Toxic Masculinity”
23. “Travel is Fatal To Prejudice” – Mark Twain
24. Masters of Misunderstanding
25. I see you
26. Anticipation, Mrs. Beasley and Starlings
27. Frankie’s America: Too strong to be brought down
28. In the News: Hijab, Hijab, Hijab. Why Are We Obsessed With a Head Scarf?
29. Muslims portrayed as “they” in the media
30. Don’t Tokenize Us 
31. “Use my Pronouns or I Won’t Eat,” Says Non-Binary Student
32. Inadequate Evidence: The Major Problem with Microagressions
33. We’re Not Friends
34. The Thankful Foreigner: An Award-Winning Essay from a Millennial
35. Dealing with the Stares: My Muslim Experiance
36. When the PC culture goes too far…
37. You have no Bucket
38. The Illusion of Christianity in America
39. Jewgle racism pt. infinity
40. Reed’s quote of the day from Charles Caleb Colton on Truth
41. Lectionary Sermon for Lent 3 A : 19 March 2017 on John 4:5-42
42. Racial Tension in Trump’s America. What Are You Going To Do About It?
43. Black Activists Reject Trader Joe’s: Might Attract ‘Non-Blacks’ – Minutemen New
44. ‘Gingerism’ – is it a real thing?
45. Flipping the Script: The Tragedy of Mary Rowlandson
46. Comic: Antisocial media
47. Coversations with Becky
48. 10 Of Megyn Kelly’s Most Racist Moments
49. I can’t believe I’m writing this in 2017
50. A response to Racism
51. How Not To Be A Privileged Ass …

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I can imagine that, for a teacher, a GCSE religious studies lesson on racism may be one of the most challenging classes to teach, especially in a school like mine; overrun with teenage girls desperate to voice their opinions in an attempt to seem more intelligent than their classmates.

The other week, I was sitting in class, learning about prejudice, already pissed off having had to discuss why ‘reverse racism’ is simply just ‘racism.’ Doodling Radiohead lyrics over my folder and pondering why on earth I had chosen to study RS, I couldn’t help but tune into a conversation between two of my classmates. One girl, for the sake of privacy let’s call her Jennifer, was explaining to a friend why Israel obviously belongs to the Arabs, not the Jews. Fair enough, if she has evidence to support this. But what Jennifer said next surely would’ve angered anybody, let alone…

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