Harry Potter #6 Response (Possible Spoiler Alert)

I just recently started Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and I'm about 280 pages in. Something I've been thinking about is the issues: insecurity and acceptance. Voldemort and all his death eaters go crazy over the fact that they are all purebloods, and everyone else should be killed, when really Voldemort was the son of a muggle and so called "squib". This confuses me, and makes me think about whether the Death Eaters would care if they knew.

Voldemort, aslo known as Tom Riddle must be very insecure to lead a pack of pureblood, ferocious, murderers on a quest to kill all non-purebloods when he is not pureblood himself. He's obviously denying it, and just hates the idea of his childhood and parents. In real life, people deny what they can't accept all the time. Which leads me to the idea of his death eaters accepting him. I wonder if they would accept him as one of them after all he's done in their movement.

If they were to accept him, which I would really believe, they would have to accept all the other mudbloods and halfbreeds, which I would completely not believe. These people are thieving killers whom are obviously deranged. But this makes me think about acceptance in general. Acceptance is by the individual, no?

Racists don't all of a sudden accept other races. That's who they are. We can all conclude that racism is wrong, sexism is wrong, homophobia is wrong, but where does this get us? It's mostly due to the ignorance isn't it? And this leads me back to insecurity. Sometimes homophobes are insecure and actually gay themselves, but as an individual they think it's ok. Just because they are gay doesn't mean they can't be against it. So now they think that they are fine, but the rest of the homosexuals are bad. The problem with this, is they aren't realizing that there are other individuals who feel the same way. So they are alright too all of a sudden, but the rest are still bad?

I don't exactly know where I'm going with this but I know that somethings funny here. As I read on hopefully I will be able to write more.