The recent cold-blooded killing of a health services company president has triggered a response that should send chills up your spine … but for way too many Americans it hasn’t. In fact, it has spawned social media stardom to the culprit and a level of support and praise that harkens to the days of Hitler in the early 1900s about acceptability of killing Jews.
When people become so conditioned to accepting hate towards anyone or anything that they condone murder, I must wonder where we are going. Read this:
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/insurance-executives-murder-sparks-online-praise-hate-rcna183017
As you carefully read the article, you will see an underlying digital technique driven with AI algorithms that foster anything that will garner attention, even by promoting hate. So, we have social media platform technologies that are harvesting and promoting ideas that tear society apart from within. Social media and especially AI are polarizing and intensifying what would otherwise be fringe points of view.
My previous blogs have highlighted the deterioration in our social fabric where doing the right thing is increasingly going out of style. Gaslighting is so common on far-left ideologies that even mainstream American called it into question as evidenced with this most recent national election. So, there is hope that America is waking up.
But the attitudes toward the not yet tried and convicted suspect in this recent murder tells me we are in an incredibly dangerous place. How can we openly voice such hate? Where has our respect for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness gone? What is worse here, is as I talk to those who feel this way they have no remorse about their hate!
Please step back and compare this article to what you are seeing around the world in what we like to call radical hate groups such as Hamas and others? We say we reject hate speech and phrases like “death to Israel” yet this NBC article points out we harbor hate at the same levels. Notice that no one in the article points out this is all hate speech!
Yes, you can say this is in response to wrongs by the healthcare company … but … killing a person just because you disagree with their business dealings crosses an ethical and moral line that I thought was not acceptable in this country. Perhaps not. I would hope that our politicians pass laws against AI that condones and/or promotes hate speech. And, should you think I am exaggerating, please take a careful read of this: https://wapo.st/4g7vyPd
Hate speech is not acceptable within our freedoms of speech.
The relentless support and promotion of hostile rhetoric by the press not only attract individuals seeking attention but also reveal a disturbing disregard for societal welfare. By continuing to endorse and disseminate such divisive rhetoric, the media fails to recognize its responsibility to foster a healthier public discourse and prioritize the well-being of our communities with a troubling disregard for societal well-being.
Thanks Jeff … and it is especially painful when you talk to a family member who you thought was intelligent and you realize they have been brainwashed into this vigilante mindset that somehow they have the right to take the law into their own hands. My prior blogs have pointed to the root problem of moral relevance in their own minds.