Before you come at me, look at the words that I used. I will not discriminate against someone for their skin color, race, or body parts. Since, those can’t easily be changed, you must accept them for who they are. Also, I don’t apply this rule to my immediate family. This is because I am not befriending any of them. Since I depend on them for assistance, I need to be lenient with them. It the same reason why I can tolerate my parent’s jokes, but not a stranger’s joke. However, if I see someone and I don’t like their tattoos or piercings, I should be allowed to avoid them. A friendship is built on being comfortable with someone else. If their adornments make you uncomfortable, you should be allowed to leave them. If I am going to be accepting that a person has an autonomy over their body, that other person should be able to accept my autonomy over my own decisions. Getting a piercing or tattoo is a decision. For those that will say that I am being shallow, I would ask this: is an unattractive person more desirable than an attractive person? If I don’t like belly piercings, why can’t I just befriend someone who doesn’t have one? There plenty of interesting people that can meet my appearance standards. I am not saying that you shouldn’t interact with someone that you don’t find attractive. Since, a conversations can happen between people that can’t stand each other and they only exist to transfer information, any appearance preferences should not be relevant.

Imagine if Hitler had been born 1,400 years ago as an Arab warlord in the 7th century.

He unites the Arab tribes under a brutal ideology of Arab racial and religious supremacy. Non-Arabs, Jews, Christians, Persians, Berbers, and others are declared inferior and obstacles to Arab destiny.

He launches devastating conquests across the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond, exterminating or enslaving resisting populations, looting cities, taking massive numbers of slaves, and erasing cultures and religions in his path. His armies build a vast empire on rivers of blood using superior tactics and propaganda.

In this timeline, he would be celebrated as a legendary hero and sword of God. Arab chroniclers would write epics about his genius and victories. His massacres and enslavements would be reframed as divine justice against inferiors and resisters. Poets would glorify him, schools would teach his story with pride, and his manifesto would be studied as wisdom. The body counts would be excused or denied "a different time," "they resisted," "God’s will."

He would be idolized exactly like the great conquerors of that era whose conquests, slavery, and subjugation are still remembered with pride today.