Redefining Punishment: Modern Racism and Hell's Renovation

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Do foreigners ever truly belong in their new land? Should children be punished for more than what is fitting the error of their ways? The year is twenty thousand fourteen anno domini and, though funds are limited, a new circle must be added to the middle of hell to separate out pre-renovation racists who have been dying a pleasant death or suffering their unjust due and to prepare a place of punishment for the sect of modern racists daily being sent elsewhere by Minos. Some unfortunate souls who are brought down from upper hell will argue that this renovation is an unnecessary cost to the kingdom, or that it is too similar to the first sub-circle of violence. Nevertheless it is necessary. Daily, racists are escaping their just due. It is time …show more content…

Race was born when powerful economic interests changed how Europeans equally viewed Africans into degraded humans-slaves. Various races were deemed unique because of external features such as skin color, hair, and muscle tone, so that people groups might be forced into labor. Thus, these racists believe mankind is made up of different races so that there will exist a social hierarchy, id est “sub-races” and “sub-humans” and a group of “elites” who preside over all of the races. Obviously, race only exists in the mind and mankind is one race. Nonetheless, the sinners in this ring of violence will not have had that mindset during their lifetimes, but will rather have the aforementioned, dated view. After all, that is why they will be here, is it …show more content…

Eliot (for his anti-Semitism), Miley Cyrus (racist music), and Iggy Azalea (racial slurs) are some prime examples of the kind of people who might might be found here. As in life they spoke to or of people as insignificant and repulsive animals, so now they will have to live out their deaths as animals without the pleasure of human speech. As one meanders past the pens this group is kept in, one might pick out the mooing of cattle. In life, these bovine animals believed other races to be incapable of becoming like the big, strong athletes of their own race so now they must forever be made of muscle that mankind enjoys eating. Perhaps, one might recognize familiar music coming from an ape howling. During these apes’ unfruitful years of life they believed a race to be inferior due to lack knowledge or agility. A third scoundrel one might glimpse is a racoon. In life these sinners could not bring themselves to view another race as anything but thieves. Now, they must forever wear the mask of thievery

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