Disclaimer: If you’re a conservative who gets riled up easily, stop reading. I’m going to get pretty passionate here. Or read on if you’re open to another point of view. In which case, all the power to you.

For those of you who are like myself, and 56 percent of Americans, then you might agree that Donald Trump is an ignorant and immature jerk with zero qualifications to run a progressive country. I’m sorry, was that a bit harsh?

This election’s race for presidency has bizarre, mainly because we have a billionaire celebrity TV host running for president and who makes incredibly ignorant, generalized and hurtful remarks about minority groups at every turn. And people like him.

I genuinely believe that Kanye West would be a better president, and that dude named his daughter after a cardinal direction.

Trump’s most recent outburst was in response to ISIS attacks, when he called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” He continues on by saying that all Muslims hate Americans and “have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” and gracefully closes by saying, “we are going to make America great again.” Really? Because everything you just said demonstrates a massive step backward for humanity?

So pretty much, according to ole Don, all Muslims hate Americans and should be banned from entering a country that would offer them refuge from a life of suffering—the same way that all Jewish people are inferior and are the reason for Germans losing World War I and the German economic crisis.

The same way that black people are in fact inhuman and deserve to be forced into slavery, beaten in the streets and hung from trees.

The same way that Japanese American citizens are against the American war effort and need to be extracted from their homes and forced into internment camps.

The same way that gay people should be stripped of their human right to marry because they’re a little bit different from the “norm.”

I thought we were past this? I thought humanity was just getting to a point with the legalization of gay marriage—after we made slavery and segregation illegal, after we punished Germany for the Holocaust and let the Japanese live their lives—where we could safely say that every breed of human is innately equal.

Although we are not yet going as far as to murder Muslims in masses, Trump’s Islamophobic announcement does sound quite similar to Hitler’s speeches in the early stages of anti-Semitism, when he isolated the Jews and did not allow them to coexist with Aryans in the same area.

I am aware that this does sound dramatic, but if we do not acknowledge even the minor similarities between these events, things could take a turn for the worst, and Americans would be at horrifying fault.

While most of the feedback Trump received for this ban was highly negative, deservingly so, he did get one big pat on the back from our old Alaskan friend, the lovely Sarah Palin.

In a lengthy Facebook post, Palin calls those who disagree with the ban “hypocritical and/or naive pundits trying to crush Donald Trump because he’s committed to clobbering the bad guys and putting the good guys first."

I think that might be a shout out to me personally. Whaddup, Sarah! And just so we’re clear, we are talking about bad guys meaning the terrorist group ISIS and not Muslims, right? Because they are two different things.

People believe that all Islamic people are exactly like the extremist terrorist group simply because it’s more entertaining to see explosions and attacks in the media than peaceful coexistence.

Generalizations happen when we only have easy access to a single world view. Just like how we see Africa as a continent of nothing but starving children and "The Lion King," and how every single lesbian wears a collared button down and has a pixie cut.

People believe these narrow ideas of things that are foreign to them because they get most of their knowledge from mainstream media. The media portrays Africa as a desert with cartoon lions who fall in love, and it portrays Muslims as American-hating extremists. That is not our fault, but failing to look past the “single story” of a certain group, as Nigerian Chimamanda Adichie calls it in her Ted talk.

There’s a single story for everything. Every Californian knows how to surf. People from Kentucky don’t own shoes. Most of us know how ignorant those sound, but not everyone sees Muslims in the same light. Plain and simple, generalizing Muslims to say that they want to murder every American is no different.

Bottom line, we’re all human. We’re all complex. We’re all different. Africa has more than starving children and cartoon lions. Lesbians come in all different shirts and haircuts. Some Californians have never seen the ocean, and some people from Kentucky do in fact own shoes.

And not all Muslims want to come to America just to murder everyone. Stereotypes do not do anyone an ounce of good, and society cannot do any improving if we do not get past these generalizations once and for all.

Because mainstream media won’t give you access to the stories of peaceful Islamic people, here’s the story of an awesome young girl, who deserves nothing more than to find refuge in America, but is being kept out because of the faults of extremists.

Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton interviewed Aya Abdullah and reached thousands with her touching words. If you’d like to educate yourself on the realities of an everyday Muslim, give her story a read.