#extremeist

[quadstrike]

please don’t get triggered by this

[how-to-be-an-anti-theist-asshole]

Cookie cutter college bitch gets owned!

4 minutes of pure fucking ownage

[papis-place]

I am no fan of Islam, or any religion for that matter, but I LOVE this guy's points.

[howtodontwalk]

The Most Cynical of Interpretations

One of the things that makes me scratch my head on tumblr is people's tendency to go to extremes of all kinds. It's not just: They said something ill considered or problematic and should be called out and if possible engaged in a dialog to promote healing and prevent future issues. It's AHHH FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK THAT WAS IGNORANT AND TOTALLY INTENTIONAL AND YOU WERE TRYING TO OPRESS ME AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU. I BET YOU KICK PUPPIES AND KITTENS FOR FUN

[ablue-lion]

Group Polarisation

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The recent Elections in UK have resulted in a series of debates between not only opposite parties, but also between ideologically different sections of the British population. 

It appeared that everyone wanted to convince some others that their own ideas about the major issues in our modern society are the "right" ones.

Unfortunately, social psychology studies have shown that in fact, group discussions tend to polarise groups so that, rather than people’s views being averaged, their initial preferences can become exaggerated and their final position is often more extreme than it was initially.

For example, after a group discussion, people already supportive of a war become more supportive, people with an initial tendency towards racism become more racist and a group with a slight preference for one job candidate will come out with a much stronger preference.

Group polarisation has been widely discussed in terms of political behaviour. For example, suppose a group of labours sit down to discuss a health care reform and a new policy proposed by a conservative politician. In the beginning of the discussion, the group as a whole may be somewhat against the healthcare reform policy (thus having an initial group attitude). After deliberating the policy, the group will demonstrate that they are now more opposed to the policy than ever. In this situation, the initial attitude was reinforced and the group became more polarised against the policy. This type of situation occurs in everyday life as politicians and other people are constantly debating issues surrounding labours versus conservative, pro-Europe versus anti-Europe attitudes, pro-gay marriage versus anti-gay marriage, etc. In each of these scenarios, there are prominent vocal leaders on each extreme who escalate issues and cause further polarisation, throwing the debate in increasing depths of extremism.

A clear example of this polarisation has been shown to occur in UKIP party supporters, who's attitudes against immigration gradually shifted from supporting a more strict control of the immigration, to more extreme opinions (such as ALL immigrants should be kicked out of Britain), to eventually culminate with a call from a UKIP candidate for the opposition candidates, as well as people voting for them to be publicly executed for treason.  This in turn, was reflected in the greater shift towards extremism and violent fascist-like attitudes in a large proportion of their party supporters. 

[throughyourmindseye-blog]

Does religion have a place in society in 2013?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=beb_1358359911

enforcing laws because they don't like laws being forced upon them? makes sense...

Let me make one thing clear before you start reading this, this is not a personal attack on Muslim culture, i'm simply using this example as an opportunity to voice my opinion on wether religion still has a place in our society in 2013 with all that is wrong in the world. 

these two are bunch of pretentious and self-indulgent individuals who believe they're that important to the world to force their view of how life should be upon others, when really people care more about what Joey Essex is doing on Im a Celebrity tonight (which says a lot about our society) when really all that they are doing is making things worse. Their families have come to the UK to try and seek a better life, which is based around equality and partly humanitarianism, I use the word partly because there are so many issues in the western world that still need to be confronted. I don't know what we can do? perhaps fight extremism with extremism, pretty much their contradictory methods ayee? If they are too tenacious and closed minded to let go of this dated fiction i.e. religion, then something needs to be done, after much of humanity learnt the wrongs of such societies as the KKK, how can extremeist behaviour still exist at the end of 2013

I personally appose religion but i'm not going to tell people to let go of it, because it's their life and their own choice, i'm a strong believer that individuals have the right to make a choice as for some religion does a whole lot of good for them as a person. Extremism needs to be eradicated and I can't see an end to that until everyone accepts living with this perception of religion in your life is primitive, so perhaps put them in the middle of a rainforest and let them see how they survive without this western way of life. My guess is that they can't, so drop this idiotic act that your god has sent you to preach, you're really just trying to make yourself feel more important than you actually are, we all came from the same single cell organisms, same planet, same ancestors, settle down and spend that fraction of your day where you'd usually be planning the next step in your grand scheme of things which in the end will lead to the demise of humanity trying to solve issues that really matter in the world, famine, child abuse, inequality, even safe water so that societies less fortunate than the one we are from can build up their infrastructure, Just to name a few blatant problems.

I did not proof read this, i just needed to get my ideas down while it was fresh is my mind, again this is not a directed attack on these two involved or their religious choices. Just a reminder that it's time to wake up and start worrying about the greater scope of things.

[redstitchtargets]

Perspective