There's been stuff in the news about hate crimes... Anti-gay attacks. Anti-Jew vandalism. Anti-Muslim threats. Anti-this. Anti-that... All of it is so sad... so much hate in the world and for what?? When we hate someone... we are really hating ourselves... We are expressing anger and fear towards that aspect of ourselves that we fear the most. We are uncertain and fearful and angry at the world... at our place in the world... at our lost opportunities... and we want to take that out on someone... So we choose some person, some individual, some group, some religion, some culture to hate...
We might as well call them fear crimes... or anger crimes... Something about whatever it is, makes us feel uncomfortable, and we don't like to feel discomfort... so better to avoid that thing... or better yet, eradicate it from our existence completely. The thing is... if everyone got rid of everything in the world that they hated.... we'd have no people left in the world... Hate is the ultimate in self-destruction...
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