Jonathan Heatt's Blog: Teaching Snapping Turtles - Posts Tagged "social-media"

"Is there an ethnic hashtag I can use to exploit the latest mass shooting in America to further divide us along racial barriers? Or am I merely brainwashed and seeking to virtue signal every second of my life?"

America is a melting pot nation and everyone feels the effects of gun violence. Viewing the problem with a myopic lens only obfuscates the issue and renders any meaningful dialogue useless. Maybe that’s the point of the media.

We, as human beings, are put on this planet to live and love. To experience the gamut of human emotions. But these violent shootings are evil unnatural acts that are stains on the souls of humanity. We need to transcend tribal differences and ascend to a higher level of consciousness and existence. We need to come together as one people to try and understand why horrible things happen and to stop them. But dividing people by race and ethnicity weighs us down to an elementary understanding of the world. Real dialogue is impossible when people are so easily manipulated by ignorance.