Noah Dougherty, 16, is a student at Cirencester College and hopes to become a journalist. He lives in Stroud.

WITH the Westminster attack behind us I thought now would be a good opportunity to express the problems I have with huge parts of today’s society.

So many people make ridiculous claims and assumptions without any evidence to back it up.

The most recent example, and one that gets me very angry, is the image of a woman walking past one of the casualties of the Westminster disaster and those helping him.

Lots of people shared this image with some disgusting captions, one of the main examples being: “Everyone stopping to help except…”

The person walking past, as I’m sure you all know, is wearing a headscarf. What difference this makes, I’ll never know, but, apparently, it does.

Why prejudice is still so prominent in our society when there is no reason or place for it is beyond me.

The only angle I can see is that terror is in the news a lot now so, in some ways, stereotypes surrounding that and its link to religion are under fire more than ever.

I like to think that I live in a forward thinking, peaceful, fair generation but most days I hear some sort of prejudice in and around college.

The media is one of the huge contributors to these misunderstandings partly because they have the power to move our focus wherever they like.

An analogy that has always intrigued me is that the media has a frame that we can see through.

I imagine the big corporations choosing where we place the frame and what we see, and we can only see through that.

This sort of thing really makes me wonder, why, when we were little did we look up to adults and assume that they knew everything and always did the right thing, when in reality, it is them who spread all the abuse and fake news for others to pass on.

I guess that, when some of the world’s leaders spread fake news and make completely false statements it all collects in a snowball like fashion, crushing those trying to stand up.

I believe that, everyone needs to stand up for people like the women in the infamous photograph and each person needs to fight back for others whenever and wherever they can.

So, even when you spot the smallest example of prejudice, it would be a huge help to try and fight back.

Start the fightback against hate.