If You Don’t Agree with Me You Are Bad!
By: Brian Lamacraft
Tags: Ignorance, Politics, Racism, Nazis, Opinions

If You Don’t Agree with Me You Are Bad!

Stupid is as stupid does, Forrest

Photo by Usman Yousaf on Unsplash

Warning: This article uses strong language. If you don’t want to read that, turn away now.

Living in this world today makes someone want to pull their hair out. Well, those of us that are adults. Those that are older, in case you’re wondering, have a little bit of this thing called life experience. As you grow up in life you start to learn a lot. It is through that learning we come to better understand ourselves. We are living in very dangerous times and if we don’t address it now, we will repeat our sins of the past. It’s time to rethink what we are doing.

Opinions

In this world, all of us have what we are called opinions. We may feel passionate about a certain subject. For example, my favorite music is the blues. I consider this to be the best music on the planet. I listened to old artists such as Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Buddy Guy, and so on. Today a lot of people like rap music. I don’t like it. I love blues, soul, and funk music. I’m just not keen on the modern rap style. This music does nothing for me. This is only my opinion.

Your Bad, You Don’t Agree!!

The main reason why this world isn’t so much shit today is that we have lost the ability to agree to disagree.

You like rap music and that is fine. You are free to listen to rap music because I know you enjoy it. I am free to listen to blues music because I enjoy that. That is what it means to have an opinion. Today we have lost the ability to agree to disagree. We try to force our opinions upon someone else.

We automatically expect them to believe what we believe. When they don’t believe what we believe, we force our opinion down their throat. In many cases, this results in violence across the country and around the world. We have decided that our opinion is the only opinion that matters. It is my way or the highway. This is why we are seeing conflict escalating in all areas of our world. We lack the ability to see the other side of an argument. We have gone from reasonable and rational adults to hypersensitive control freaks.

Nazis Everywhere!

I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of people in America are not Nazis. It is true, there are Nazi groups in America. They’re always been Nazi groups in America, they probably always will be. There will always be people that have that sort of ideology. Now everything is coming up Nazi. There is a Nazi over here, and a Nazi over there. Of course, we can push back against “actual nazis,” but this isn’t everyone!

This word really doesn’t have any meaning today. If America doesn’t fact have 70 million+ Nazis, I’m afraid the country is in a world of shit. They were only around 13.6 million soldiers or so in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s that fought in the Second World War. Not all of these German troops were nazis. We’re using the word Nazi today to label someone that doesn’t agree with us. It’s completely and utterly ridiculous.

Shunning

I love this concept of shunning. Someone has a different opinion and you do whatever you can to destroy their life. Do you know who used to do this? This was done by actual Nazis in Germany in the 1930s or 40s. People today throw around the word Nazi without understanding what the flaming fuck the word means. I think those that are using the word Nazi all the time should actually pick up a book and learn about the real Nazis.

You see, the Nazis took their hatred towards the Jewish people and destroyed their lives. The Jews had different opinions. They crushed their will and spirit to live and eventually took them off to concentration camps where they gassed and killed them. The world didn’t quite know the extent of these atrocities until the later stages of the war when the Allies found these concentration camps. This is where hatred goes. This is where it always goes.

We’ve seen it in other places in the world with ethnic cleansing such as the Bosnia and Herzegovina War. Shunning and de-platforming a person today, may need to do something unspeakable in the future. It doesn’t occur right away. Someone might be persecuted for many years before the unthinkable happens. We start to see people that have different opinions than us as subhuman. We will have right think and wrong think. If you don’t think our world is starting to go this way then I have a bridge to sell you on the River of Denial.

Ending Racism and Hate

Using hatred to end racism and hate will not work. Ignorance and a lack of understanding are the worst things we have in this world. We are kept this way by those that wish to divide us. To end racism and hate we have to use education. We have to educate our population about racism and hate. What we have been doing is de-platforming people that have normal opinions. A lot of these people are not hateful or even racist.

Racism is another word that has lost all meaning. We throw around the word racism without understanding what it even means. Now we think anyone that doesn’t have the same opinion we do is racist. It’s not even actual racist people that are racist, everything today is racist! Things are racist! It really doesn’t matter what opinion someone has people out there will somehow find a way to call it racist. I might as well call America, Nuttersville.

Communicate

We seem to lack the ability to communicate properly with other human beings. Screaming and hollering at each other nonstop will not solve any of our issues in this world.

Stamping your feet and screaming that your opinion is the right one is not going to work. When we are younger, we lack a lot of communication skills because we haven’t done it enough in our lives. There’s a need for all of us to open our hearts and minds and to communicate with those we don’t agree with.

To have a functioning society there has to be some sort of middle ground. It is 100% impossible to have everyone agree with you 24/7. This will never happen and you should never expect it to happen. No country has ever agreed with each other 100%. Everyone has their opinions and we should all feel free to express our opinions.

If we never want to listen to another person, then our future won’t be bright at all. We will always be at odds with each other because we can never agree on anything. I go back to Nazi Germany. They took away the Jewish people’s ability to lead their lives normally. They were shunned and ostracized and eventually they were killed. This is where we are going.

Conclusion

Learn from history or repeat it. I hate to say that we are repeating it.

We have to have mutual agreements or nothing happens. I have to make a contract agreement with my client so that they get writing done and I get paid. If I can’t agree on that contract then my client doesn’t get writing and I don’t get paid. You can take that simple arrangement and apply it to anything in life.

I may have to accept a little bit less money to work with the client. I may also have to convince them to pay me a little bit more because I feel that my writing is worth more than what they are offering. We have to come to some sort of mutual understanding of the work to get done. We are agreeing to disagree even though we have different opinions on the payment for that work.

We have to learn to once more agree to disagree or we will have nothing but absolute chaos.