How Can There Be So Much Hate?

I admit that I watch trash television. I used to love good fight between Ronnie and Sammi, and while they were annoying, it definitely kept me going back for me. I know there always has been, and always will be violence, but I truly feel that television is perpetuating a lot of it.

I left work disgusted after watching the video on change.org's site about the transgendered woman who was brutally beaten at a Baltimore McDonald's while employees instigated and video-tapped. Actually, disgusted doesn't even begin to describe how I felt. I was angry, sad, frustrated, even resentful. I thought about how those women who beat her and the employees deserved to get their own asses kicked. I mean, they beat her until she had a seizure! How can someone who doesn't know you from Adam or Eve have so much hate for you?

I know that television is not completely to blame, but the employee's who recorded the vicious attack probably just wanted their ten mins of fame, or to make money off of their youtube hits. When Real World first came out, if there was even a hint of violence, that person was thrown off the show. Now, they need it to survive the ratings. Have we, as a culture, become more violent, or are we just more tolerant of it? Either way, it makes me sad to think about having kids. Besides bullying, stereotyping, discrimination, we now have to worry about if a stranger hates you for looking/being different and beating  the shit out of you.

I hope that the national attention that this has been receiving really opens the eyes of bigots everywhere that . And I pray that the woman who was beaten has a fast physical recovery. I cannot even fathom the emotional trauma that she will continue to go through. And I hope one day, we can all get along....