There are many levels of hypocrisy: individual hypocrites,
company/corporation hypocrisy religious/secular organizational hypocrisy,
governmental hypocrisy, and societal hypocrisy. Frankly it all sucks.
The individual
hypocrite bothers me because depending on what they are being hypocritical
about it can have ramifications that can be detrimental to the others around
them. Someone who states that they are not racist or a bigoted, but will pop
off racial slurs about Muslims and Hispanics, although may not directly harm
someone in their circle but can “flavor” the thoughts of someone about a
specific group. Many hypocrites of this nature are stating these “facts” from
generalizations and stereotypes. The racial slur you yell at the Latino may in
fact be completely false from the person you are yelling at.
Religious
organizations have a bad habit of doing something very similar about people as
the individual hypocrite. Often the case is in my experience, is that the most
vocal people of a religious organization are the biggest hypocrites of the
group. Case and point: the Westboro Baptist Church. Christianity teaches to
love one another, that God loves all sinners but hates the sin, that if you
accept Christ as your savior you are saved, if you repent you are forgiven, people
of all walks of life can become a Christian, and help others who may not be
able to help themselves through charity and generosity. Your riches don’t
follow you to heaven, your worldly possessions mean nothing there, and those
who give most of themselves to others take precedence to those who are selfish
and keep everything to themselves. If that is the case, then why do they (WBC
and other churches) go against everything that Christianity teaches them? Why do
they spout off some of the most hateful rhetoric about people different from
themselves (the LGBT community, peoples of other countries, different religious
beliefs, the military, the government, etc…)? Why are so many churches getting
so much money, yet there are members of their congregation or the nearby
community who starve? The Vatican receives billions of dollars in tithes, but
how much of that is actually given back to the community? See where I’m going
with this?
Secular
organizations are not immune to this either. Everyone who isn’t a part of their
group is in some way inferior to them. Organizations that claim that they
promote attraction for all to join, yet turn someone away for their beliefs on
something, aren’t open to all. MENSA says that if you are of a specific level
on IQ you can join, but those that join often have a holier than thou attitude,
and treat those who do not have their level IQ like garbage. Those that decline
to join are labeled by them to not be a true genius. A genius in my book often
does things that aren’t like the others, which flies in the face of convention,
and challenges the established. Therefore, if a prospective MENSA candidate
declines to join due to their disagreeing with something about that
organization, why are they not a genius? They are questioning something about
that group, which true geniuses question a lot of things.
Governmental
hypocrisy would be too large for me to go into. One thing that bothers me about
my own government is, why are we spending so much on foreign aid, to countries
that own a large chunk of our national debt? If we’re already in debt, why
spend money we do not have? Why spend money on these countries, when in fact it
would be better suited here taking care of our own people?
Society
has its own level. Why is it that a 5’9” 100 lb woman with no curves and hardly
any tits to mention considered ideal, when a healthy 5’4” 150lb woman who has
curves and medium/large breasts considered fat? Why do we idolize models and
visual stars of today, but if we were to place the female stars of the past to
our standards, they would be the butt of everyone’s jokes? If Mae West, Marylin
Monroe, and Bettie Page were alive and in their prime today in the bodies they
had then, they would be classified plus size by the fashion industry, and
called fat by the entertainment industry. Why is one man’s terrorist another
man’s patriot? (This may cause an outcry in my own country) If you take the popular
definition of a terrorist, the founding fathers, and the revolutionaries that
helped pave the way for my country’s independence, are in fact all terrorists.
They committed acts of terrorism against the crown of Great Britain and its
government. King George the 3rd and Parliament labeled the rebels as
traitors and a threat to the crown, not too unlike some of the revolutionaries
of today and their respective governments. The difference is only time in which
they took place, and what side of the fence you are sympathetic to.
The reason
that hypocrisy bothers me so much is in my eyes, hypocrites are liars. I hate
being lied to. I’ve dealt with enough lies in the past that I have very little
patience for them now. If you are a hypocrite, don’t be surprised if I call you
out. And to the people of the world, stand up, and call out your hypocrites. The
world would be a better place if we were true to ourselves and others.
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