A lack of understanding about the differences between people often leads to fear and intolerance. Those who are living in fear often gravitate towards others with the same fears. There is a myth that ignoring these groups of people is the best policy. In fact, when left unaddressed, these sentiments tend to grow and often lead to acts of intimidation and end up in hate-related violence. Many anti hate groups have arisen to stand up against this.
They may be a small group devoted to protecting the rights of a specific minority or a larger one that fights against racism of any kind. Recently, an issue for concern is the proliferation of intolerance on the web and certain organizations are devoted to looking out for web bigotry. Large or small, they are addressing important issues and deserve support.
Groups like the Klansmen, Aryans, black separatists and white nationalists have attracted the attention of a number of dissatisfied young people. There are those who feel that to give such organizations any attention at all just adds to this attraction. Experts disagree with this sentiment and say that ignoring them does not solve anything. There behavior needs to be exposed.
Organizations like this are usually highly active and exploit every possible situation to spread propaganda, intimidate, vandalize property and even kill people. Young people do join these organizations and in fact an alarming percentage of victims and perpetrators of violence are young people. This is why deterring, preventing and reducing hate-related juvenile violence has become so important to many organizations.
They feel that young people need to be encouraged to bring issues like diversity and prejudice out into the open and discuss them. Parents can help to do this too, getting their children to talk openly about discrimination against other religions, races, genders and sexes. Educators in the schools are also influential when it comes to addressing these issues. They have the perfect opportunity to follow programs that are often distributed freely to them by organizations and bring about change.
Many parents and teachers do not know the best way to address such issues. This is why organizations distribute all sorts of material to help them. Many of them do this freely as they have support in the form of donations. Documentary films, books, videos and even lesson-plans provide ways to help them to make children aware of stereotypes and help them to understand their own prejudices. This can help to create a different climate in a school of acceptance and safety.
As much as prejudice and hatred exist, there are those who are prepared to stand up against it. They do so in many different ways, from educating the youth to taking cases of prison inmate abuse and exploitation of workers to court and winning favorable verdicts. There are even programs for law enforcement officials showing them innovative ways of how to intervene in hate-related crimes.
In a time of economic instability, hatred tends to increase as people are looking for someone to blame for their struggles. This is often encouraged by politicians looking for support and exploited by the media too. Those who stand up for justice, human rights and an end to hatred, racism and religious bigotry deserve all the support they can get.
They may be a small group devoted to protecting the rights of a specific minority or a larger one that fights against racism of any kind. Recently, an issue for concern is the proliferation of intolerance on the web and certain organizations are devoted to looking out for web bigotry. Large or small, they are addressing important issues and deserve support.
Groups like the Klansmen, Aryans, black separatists and white nationalists have attracted the attention of a number of dissatisfied young people. There are those who feel that to give such organizations any attention at all just adds to this attraction. Experts disagree with this sentiment and say that ignoring them does not solve anything. There behavior needs to be exposed.
Organizations like this are usually highly active and exploit every possible situation to spread propaganda, intimidate, vandalize property and even kill people. Young people do join these organizations and in fact an alarming percentage of victims and perpetrators of violence are young people. This is why deterring, preventing and reducing hate-related juvenile violence has become so important to many organizations.
They feel that young people need to be encouraged to bring issues like diversity and prejudice out into the open and discuss them. Parents can help to do this too, getting their children to talk openly about discrimination against other religions, races, genders and sexes. Educators in the schools are also influential when it comes to addressing these issues. They have the perfect opportunity to follow programs that are often distributed freely to them by organizations and bring about change.
Many parents and teachers do not know the best way to address such issues. This is why organizations distribute all sorts of material to help them. Many of them do this freely as they have support in the form of donations. Documentary films, books, videos and even lesson-plans provide ways to help them to make children aware of stereotypes and help them to understand their own prejudices. This can help to create a different climate in a school of acceptance and safety.
As much as prejudice and hatred exist, there are those who are prepared to stand up against it. They do so in many different ways, from educating the youth to taking cases of prison inmate abuse and exploitation of workers to court and winning favorable verdicts. There are even programs for law enforcement officials showing them innovative ways of how to intervene in hate-related crimes.
In a time of economic instability, hatred tends to increase as people are looking for someone to blame for their struggles. This is often encouraged by politicians looking for support and exploited by the media too. Those who stand up for justice, human rights and an end to hatred, racism and religious bigotry deserve all the support they can get.
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