Amazingly well written, and totally on point with so much and almost everything you said. It causes people to really not even see the victims out there in the world that hold it together. Especially if it’s a target that they feel they need to eliminate for whatever predispositionsthoughts or opinions they have formed. Their family has formed and clear psychology is just not easy. Good enough to understand for these types of people thank you again well written
We get people like this. It’s not even about hate. It’s just about too much of the one-sided speech. And that’s what makes people like myself over speak because it does not work for me and at the same time I wanna know what’s going on and I’m trying to get with the program, but someone who just says something like that so short so nothing and I’m not even understanding what’s really happening I’m new to this whole little site here it’s not exactly leading with any reason I don’t even know who this person is has no profile photo or anything. That’s the second thing I don’t know what it is so who’s being transparent? I’m here. I’m brand new to this and I’m at least participating right. Therefore you know it shows a little bit of character so you know I love your whole everything you wrote is exactly and very in depth a poetic, but also very philosophical and even almost medical text at this point is he? It’s a medical tax definition and dictionary for exactly what it is that brings them spirals people into that kind of attitude when you just hear nonsense and very cutthroat nothings it does not bringour culture into antiquity
Thanks Liberaldad. It reminds me of a song from the Musical South Pacific, that I learned when I was a child. It was written by Rogers and Hammerstein. The title is: You've Got to Be Carefully Taught.
And Trump’s press media repeats the ideas of “us v them” so often it has become “normalized” into all of their reporting. Those folks who read these so-called news articles are the sponges of this philosophy. What happened to the right to a free press?
The person I hate the most is Donald Trump. In his case that is the correct response. To a lesser degree I despise the congressional rats that buoy him up. Is “despise” more acceptable?
I agree Erik. Hate is something I refuse to let in my heart, it is poison that hurts the hater more than the hated. It destroys from within. When it comes to FELON. I am beyond angry, and I have to check myself. I have to remember my belief and practice that vengeance is not mine. I hold tightly to the belief that there will be a reckoning, not by me, you, or any being of this earth. Does that mean I sit back and do nothing? Absolutely NOT! What is mine is to constantly and unabashedly speak in defense and guard, to the extent possible, the rights of others to live, make mistakes, make choices, live!
A couple of years ago I was in Belfast, Northern Ireland and I took a taxi tour of the “Trouble” between republicans, those who want to be a part of the Irish Republic and and unionists, those who want to remain with the UK (contrary to popular belief it is not really about religion). I got into a conversation with a couple of the cabbie who were best friends, one a Catholic and the other a Protestant. They said that the fighting will end when they integrate elementary schools. Right now the schools are about 98% segregated between Catholics and Protestants.
And I thought, yeah, you can’t hate someone you grow up with. You really can’t hate someone you know as a person rather than as part of a group.
Those two cabbies, those best friends, enlightened me to the answer to hate.
Well, let’s not get carried away. It’s easy to say but difficult to do as evidenced by the years of conflict and deaths in Northern Ireland and a peace that is, at best, somewhat tenuous. We all have lots of work to do.
In my estimation, this is one of the most profound things you have written:
"The words I am saying are not “woke” or the words of a bleeding heart liberal. These should be the words that are stamped on your heart. Being unkind to people based off of false perceptions shows how truly immature you are if you believe it makes you think you are any better than anyone else."
For most of my life, I have assumed that somewhere in the makeup of humans, many of them have an innate desire to feel superior to someone else. It exists not only in straight white people, but in virtually every race or group. As an older gay male, I can assure you that strata have always existed in my world, with one group of gays trying to assert superiority over others for whatever the reason. It exists in every group of marginalized people I have encountered. I have never understood why any group of suppressed people has the need to suppress other equally diminished folks, but I've seen it over and over in my lifetime. Couldn't we make better strides toward equality and peace if we weren't attacking each other trying to prove superiority?
I was once Teacher of the Year for my school district. When it was time to make my speech to the staff, I focused on the ideas of hate and bullying, encouraging my peers to call out even the smallest microaggression for what it was. I also focused on the fact that people are not born hating anyone. It has to be learned. One of my cars has sported a license tag frame for the past twenty years or so that says: "HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE." I firmly believe that. I've worked with students who have had to resist their parents and grandparents' demands to use racial slurs and to despise others simply because of who they are. I counseled them to not give in, to break the generational curse of hate.
This is a timely subject all of us should be contemplating. The hatred that was once a barely visible undercurrent was released full force, and we're seeing the unfortunate results. Thank you for sharing this with us.
You're welcome Michael. It's nice to know there are still well meaning people in the world. That there are people that can still see below the surface. To see who someone truly is. To see beyond color,race,sex,disability or serial preference or any other of the details that make us human. I refuse to hate based on superficial things. Know who someone is BEFORE judging. It's really that simple.
I have seen and heard it everywhere in my 62 years.
I have a very difficult time using the word hate toward any human being~ in fact, I never use the word when when speaking about another human or group of human beings.
However, I have seriously teetered on the line of hating Donald Trump and his cronies.
Why? Because of their character (lack thereof), because of what they do.
I don’t hate anyone because of their color or ethnicity or any reason except their character and its impact on me. I don’t hate the black man who picks up my trash or works in hot, dirty fields to put food on my table? I am grateful for his willingness to provide a dirty and poorly paid but critical service. But I do hate the selfish and willful white man who abuses his position in ways that directly and negatively affect me. He tells me he was elected by me, but a foreign country claims they interfered with the election to ensure his election. What should I believe? Should I believe our elections an be so easily rigged or that my vote no longer counts? Now he wants to illegally take away my vote because of my sec, sending us flying backwards in time. I am angry and alarmed and full of rage that an election in this country can be illegally rigged, and I am furious that the President of the USA is even considering taking away my voting rights and those of all American women. Lady Liberty🗽 must have tears in her eyes.
Agree. Also would add that Homo sapiens haven’t outgrown tribalism which feeds the rest.
Children are not born with hate.
Look at the little ones...
and see how they do not care about skin color...
they do not care about some other person being in a wheelchair (of course, they're curious as hell and wanna try it)...
they do not care about gender (though, again, when they see different body parts, they're curious and...)...
Parents and society teach hate.
Yep, it is a learned emotion. When it's allowed to metastisize it becomes hate.
Powerful. Hatred is learned, chosen, and ultimately un-natural
💯
Amazingly well written, and totally on point with so much and almost everything you said. It causes people to really not even see the victims out there in the world that hold it together. Especially if it’s a target that they feel they need to eliminate for whatever predispositionsthoughts or opinions they have formed. Their family has formed and clear psychology is just not easy. Good enough to understand for these types of people thank you again well written
Thank you Natasha. Hatred is the easy path. It's very difficult for a lot of people (especially the weak minded)to be empathetic.
We get people like this. It’s not even about hate. It’s just about too much of the one-sided speech. And that’s what makes people like myself over speak because it does not work for me and at the same time I wanna know what’s going on and I’m trying to get with the program, but someone who just says something like that so short so nothing and I’m not even understanding what’s really happening I’m new to this whole little site here it’s not exactly leading with any reason I don’t even know who this person is has no profile photo or anything. That’s the second thing I don’t know what it is so who’s being transparent? I’m here. I’m brand new to this and I’m at least participating right. Therefore you know it shows a little bit of character so you know I love your whole everything you wrote is exactly and very in depth a poetic, but also very philosophical and even almost medical text at this point is he? It’s a medical tax definition and dictionary for exactly what it is that brings them spirals people into that kind of attitude when you just hear nonsense and very cutthroat nothings it does not bringour culture into antiquity
Thanks Liberaldad. It reminds me of a song from the Musical South Pacific, that I learned when I was a child. It was written by Rogers and Hammerstein. The title is: You've Got to Be Carefully Taught.
You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught from year to year,
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a different shade—
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
And Trump’s press media repeats the ideas of “us v them” so often it has become “normalized” into all of their reporting. Those folks who read these so-called news articles are the sponges of this philosophy. What happened to the right to a free press?
I wish I knew
In a few words: Trump and the oligarchs
Agreed.
The person I hate the most is Donald Trump. In his case that is the correct response. To a lesser degree I despise the congressional rats that buoy him up. Is “despise” more acceptable?
dB
Would do
Thank you 😊
I agree Erik. Hate is something I refuse to let in my heart, it is poison that hurts the hater more than the hated. It destroys from within. When it comes to FELON. I am beyond angry, and I have to check myself. I have to remember my belief and practice that vengeance is not mine. I hold tightly to the belief that there will be a reckoning, not by me, you, or any being of this earth. Does that mean I sit back and do nothing? Absolutely NOT! What is mine is to constantly and unabashedly speak in defense and guard, to the extent possible, the rights of others to live, make mistakes, make choices, live!
Thank you Maureen!
Great article, thank you.
A couple of years ago I was in Belfast, Northern Ireland and I took a taxi tour of the “Trouble” between republicans, those who want to be a part of the Irish Republic and and unionists, those who want to remain with the UK (contrary to popular belief it is not really about religion). I got into a conversation with a couple of the cabbie who were best friends, one a Catholic and the other a Protestant. They said that the fighting will end when they integrate elementary schools. Right now the schools are about 98% segregated between Catholics and Protestants.
And I thought, yeah, you can’t hate someone you grow up with. You really can’t hate someone you know as a person rather than as part of a group.
Those two cabbies, those best friends, enlightened me to the answer to hate.
That is so cool. I am so glad that you had such a enlightening experience. There is hope after all.
Well, let’s not get carried away. It’s easy to say but difficult to do as evidenced by the years of conflict and deaths in Northern Ireland and a peace that is, at best, somewhat tenuous. We all have lots of work to do.
Oh absolutely. It's just good to feel like these things are possible even for a moment.
In my estimation, this is one of the most profound things you have written:
"The words I am saying are not “woke” or the words of a bleeding heart liberal. These should be the words that are stamped on your heart. Being unkind to people based off of false perceptions shows how truly immature you are if you believe it makes you think you are any better than anyone else."
For most of my life, I have assumed that somewhere in the makeup of humans, many of them have an innate desire to feel superior to someone else. It exists not only in straight white people, but in virtually every race or group. As an older gay male, I can assure you that strata have always existed in my world, with one group of gays trying to assert superiority over others for whatever the reason. It exists in every group of marginalized people I have encountered. I have never understood why any group of suppressed people has the need to suppress other equally diminished folks, but I've seen it over and over in my lifetime. Couldn't we make better strides toward equality and peace if we weren't attacking each other trying to prove superiority?
I was once Teacher of the Year for my school district. When it was time to make my speech to the staff, I focused on the ideas of hate and bullying, encouraging my peers to call out even the smallest microaggression for what it was. I also focused on the fact that people are not born hating anyone. It has to be learned. One of my cars has sported a license tag frame for the past twenty years or so that says: "HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE." I firmly believe that. I've worked with students who have had to resist their parents and grandparents' demands to use racial slurs and to despise others simply because of who they are. I counseled them to not give in, to break the generational curse of hate.
This is a timely subject all of us should be contemplating. The hatred that was once a barely visible undercurrent was released full force, and we're seeing the unfortunate results. Thank you for sharing this with us.
You're welcome Michael. It's nice to know there are still well meaning people in the world. That there are people that can still see below the surface. To see who someone truly is. To see beyond color,race,sex,disability or serial preference or any other of the details that make us human. I refuse to hate based on superficial things. Know who someone is BEFORE judging. It's really that simple.
Well said.
Well-written.
I have seen and heard it everywhere in my 62 years.
I have a very difficult time using the word hate toward any human being~ in fact, I never use the word when when speaking about another human or group of human beings.
However, I have seriously teetered on the line of hating Donald Trump and his cronies.
Why? Because of their character (lack thereof), because of what they do.
I get it Lance, you and me both on DT
I don’t hate anyone because of their color or ethnicity or any reason except their character and its impact on me. I don’t hate the black man who picks up my trash or works in hot, dirty fields to put food on my table? I am grateful for his willingness to provide a dirty and poorly paid but critical service. But I do hate the selfish and willful white man who abuses his position in ways that directly and negatively affect me. He tells me he was elected by me, but a foreign country claims they interfered with the election to ensure his election. What should I believe? Should I believe our elections an be so easily rigged or that my vote no longer counts? Now he wants to illegally take away my vote because of my sec, sending us flying backwards in time. I am angry and alarmed and full of rage that an election in this country can be illegally rigged, and I am furious that the President of the USA is even considering taking away my voting rights and those of all American women. Lady Liberty🗽 must have tears in her eyes.
I feel your pain. And I rage the with you!
Why do we hate? We hate the system that draws others into it to pull the levers.