I guess people still strive for that acceptance... particularly if they themselves have failed to achieve it in the past, even for some if this means doing to others what they themselves have suffered through, personally I could not, it's very 4th grade playground hierachy really.

Ignorance, intolerance, and entitlement. Many who have suffered the effects of discrimination have developed a sense of entitlement which they believes gives them the leeway to judge and treat others the exact way they have been treated. Nothing more than pure ignorance in my opinion.

I have a hard time understanding this myself. As the member of a disliked minority (to this day) who was part of the Final Solution in the Holocaust I am even more careful to stamp out hate towards others if I see it grow in me. I cannot imagine discriminating considering my and my people's history. I understand anger due to personal experiences, history, and current situations in EU but believe it is part of my "job" to combat it. I think those who have faced it should be MORE tolerant... not less.

I don't know. Ask a Jew living in New York who wouldn't have a problem opening up with a Machine gun against a line up of unarmed Muslims.

I think that the anti-discrimination movement promoted by government and the media, itself, sends out mixed and confusing messages that tend to anger people. Almost any white person can run down a long list of what they deem to be a form of non-politically correct discriminations in reverse that are just fine and dandy with the seemingly hypocritical crowd who say say they want to erase racism and discrimination. The Congressional Black Caucus Black Entertainment Television (BET) Miss Black America Black Police Officers Organization Black Firefighters Organization Negro College Fund ...and on and on and on. There are hundreds of examples. Substitute "Black" with "White" in such cases and even most whites, who have come to understand the importance of "color blindness", would cringe. But whites see blacks and their "champions" finding non-discrimination, anti-racism as a one-way street and such as the above perfectly acceptable. As they say down in redneck country..."That dog don't hunt!" The above, I feel, is a rather classic example of what you are referring to, i.e., "perfectly acceptable discrimination" by the "powers that be" --the likes of those who actually promote and FEED on discriminatory division...politicians, media, Jesse Jackson types-- but is hardly acceptable to those who would REALLY wish such hate to be eliminated from society altogether. Fat chance!

I share that sentiment. In California in some high schools we have constant fights between hispanics and african americans..turf wars, I don't know. It seems to me that once one experiences any kind of discrimination, one would be incapable of dishing out the same kind of crap to others. It's like in junior high..the scrubs..the 7th graders..they get hammered by the 8th graders (in my day...zillions of years ago). So they become 8th graders and hammer the new 7th graders..and so it goes. Such discrimination is nothing more than arrested development..playground stuff. Them that does it..well, they're still children on the playground and haven't grown up. Sad. :( Happy Thursday my friend! :) ((hugs))