The divide and conquer strategy is succeeding. Vax v Antivax, Black v White, Woke v Hate, Climate v Hoax, Trump v Biden, Trans v Women v Men, Virus v No virus. When will the gullible wake up? The only war that counts is Elites versus Everyone else!
While everyone is busy fighting something the real threats are going along nicely in the backrooms. Divergent of energy, keeping people in angst, fearful, on edge and not happy helps the elites push their agenda.
Koala, Well stated! Why waste energy and time by promoting superficial actions and magnifying divisions, when time, energy, resources, and intelligence can be more creatively expended on powerful, positive methods of upholding freedom.
Spot on Robert. What we are witnessing is classic elite "divide & conquer" tactics on steroids. When all the institutional structures of society are implementing as policy, and spouting as "truth" - the same irrational, illogical, anti-science narratives - you know you're being gaslighted by the big boys.
I, a "South Asian," hated -- yep, hated -- that "Stop Asian Hate" slogan in particular. It's 100% designed to cause antagonism. Just like so many other social justice slogans. Some excellent examples of insanity in here, thanks.
Yes but take it from a person who’s had to (and her family members also) endure her fair share of dumb racist comments since she was a child, whilst living in many different countries, this marketing slogan is designed to incite hate and perpetuate victimhood mentality.
Same with the BLM one; my dislike for those three little words does not mean that I don’t recognize that black people can experience racism.
Yes, but I think that at that specific time in history (“Covid”) people of Chinese/Korean/Japanese really bore the brunt of the hatred. I’m not dismissing what you have said. 👍
Another thing, with respect to being “Asian”/“South Asian”: a couple of months ago, when I linked to my 50 Shades of Beige video on another Substack which was talking about racism, some guy, after having watched it, wrote a really mean-spirited comment, all based on his assumption that I must be super wealthy, simply because I was “South Asian.” I never responded because he was clearly trying to goad me, but he was wrong: I grew up very poor and have never been wealthy (mostly due to my choice of profession — artist — and recently exacerbated due to my speaking out about Covid insanity).
Always consider how Hollywood markets your 'tribe' to a country. What movies get nudged to the front of the media? How are 'you' portrayed? How am I? How are they? What country do they want me to like, love or help? Which ones do your fave celebs hero up in? Which block do you check and what does the Chill and Netflix Binge culture like to present?
In a subdivided world, we all get there somehow...
What an ignorance and paucity of generosity.~~~This all makes me think of a very courageous sweet Vietnamese woman who was my nail contact before I moved to Phx . She told me that she and her two year? old son sat in the open waters with others in a full boat waiting for rescue after the war. If I still lived there it is likely I would have kept in touch with her. After what she went through still a sweet spirit and kindness.
Yes, in the US I think we think of Asians as being Japanese/Chinese/Koreans and tend to identify Indians (including Sri Lankans and Pakistanis) as basically “Indian”… I think “Asian” and this “stop Asian hate” means something else here…
Ha! There’s not even a standardized test for “COVID”, but there is the Constitution of the United States of America which the extraordinarily evil Trump suspended by his lies. I’m not sowing discord, I’m throwing the truth right back in the faces of those who support Mr Operation Warp Speed because, as a truth teller, I am not their enemy, I have no reason to let these people exonerate the worst and most destructive Commander in Chief in US History.
The hate speech legislation that passed under P Clinton in the 1990's without much reasoning or much support was the beginning of official controlled speech in the US.
That the government determines what hate speech is exactly like the government determining what misinformation is. It is the giant gov't blob that wins the prize of both hate speech and misinformation, think "safe and effective," or "two weeks to slow the spread."
I just wish the rigged game with the ever-shifting rules was transparent to everyone and not just to a few. If more saw through this the blob would not be able to get away with their idiotic manipulation of everything.
Their ability to be the biggest exploiters of the most vulnerable populations while pretending to be their defenders. No one is buying this B.S. anymore. C.J. Hopkins said it right, it's a wonder anyone can talk to anyone anymore. Exactly what they wanted.
I agree but some of us are doing our best to counter that drive to shut us up. I'll talk to anyone and everyone who'll talk to me. I'm even nice to other people. Wow. What a concept. Thinking people should try to be kind to each other. Who was that guy who got in trouble for it? You know, the one with the cross? (btw, I'm an atheist myself)
And I'm a Christian. They'll go after the Christians with a vengeance. Does atheist mean you don't think there is a higher power other than yourself? I don't know all the definitions. I think when people are silent and centered, the answer to all of this will naturally come to them. Believing in the religious dogma without knowing the history is a problem. They've destroyed so much as they want us to feel untethered, without direction or anchor to a higher moral authority born within us and through us.
I don't know all the formal definitions myself. I don't believe in any kind of embodied God. That doesn't mean there isn't one, just that I've never felt it/him/her/whatever.
I certainly acknowledge that there are things bigger anything human beings can imagine and plenty that we don't understand. I used to meditate and sometimes would feel quieter, although never silent. Never had anything like an embodied God come to me. More like a bigger image of what I was - not ending at the boundaries of my body.
I am tethered to the Earth. I walk most places and am always on the Earth and under the sky.
My father passed at a time I was not as connected to my roots of Christianity, and as I was standing in his room, I knew the minute before he was about to go. I told my brother he was about to go. I don't know how I knew. When he passed quietly, a light flashed up through him and through the ceiling. I asked my brother if he saw this. He didn't. After my sister passed unexpectedly my sorrow was so dark, I was on a flight heading home and I felt her arms embrace me in my seat. It scared me but not for long. I've had a few encounters that I was not looking for. Are there messages all around us that we are disconnected from? All the time but only let in the divine ones is my motto.
All by design. All according to plan. Clearly, “hate” and 'fighting hate” are simply “elite”-directed weapons of division in their vast divide-and-conquer arsenal. From https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/versus ...
Unwaveringly true to the fools
the fates have us play in this life
sadly we slice and dice ourselves into tribes
at the stealth behest of our rulers;
into tribes shrewdly maneuvered
by the-powers-that-be to prevent
we-the-plebs from uniting and fighting
the possessed point-oh-one percent.
“Such unawareness is especially egregious among CRT zealots and others (like Spike Lee) who hold that “black people” can’t be racists...” — Yup! Here's a poetic take on this grift you're sure to like… https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/shades
That was a lot of fun to watch - great job! I'm a Swedish-Mexican... A spicy cold shot that doesn't see a point to life absent the abundance of our wonderful "differences" and creative pursuits. Think I gotta join your sub ;). I actually have a song I wrote and recorded about Mumbai inspired by a friend that lives there.
What a list! 😳. I’ve found Love of all life to be much stronger than the hate squirrel of the moment. One positive from all this mess has been honing my discernment 💕😎. It’s so much easier to chase one’s tail of the current outrageous assault on so many fronts.
Yeah, firm, steadfast focus on 'love of all life', as you say. Add in the sky, clouds, earth, sun, rivers, seas, and the like, and you've got where I'm at these days.
ya forgot the "commie hate"--now sure, we in the US don't wanna be USSR or CCP but (inconveniently) many of our most brilliant writers, thinkers, labor organizers an' "good eggs" intellectually an' otherwise were "commies" (later changed their stripes... 'er sickles...) from John Steinbeck ta Woodie Guthrie, Clifford Odets--an' (oy vez mir) today the Jews ("Chews!") are bein' blamed for RUININ' America an' all of Western Culture AND "All White People" b/c a lott've 'em were commies -- denyin' their change of heart an' the natural invalidation to "do something don't just sit there!" (ingrained in even the secular...). Them "Protocols" (aka "protoCULLS" are back like bums on the Bowery on a Wednesday mornin' after a Tuesday night bum rush!)
ALSO Mark Twain, Dick Gregory, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Joan Rivers -- I LOVE LOVE LOVE all'ev 'em--none "peecee" (wull I ain't neither) -- an' yup, they took out Joan over "Michael" which wuz too bad cuz she loved her gay follow'erz--genuinely! (I think it wuz the deep state risk as the lady was more of a homophile than the oppy-site). May she--an' all've'em RIP. (RIP to ALL the great non-peecee comedians--Red Foxx, Richard Pryor, Belle Barth!!!!! an' of course Carlin!!!!)
The 3 most misunderstood (and most important) words in the New Testament:
"resist not evil".
"resist" = fear and/or hate. Which are really the same thing.
As soon as someone reacts with fear or anger they are feeding into the negative energy and doing exactly what the perpetrator wants. It's like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
The best way to deal with a Bully is to ignore the Bully.
i've worked with and been friends with some colleagues over the years who had terrible views on certain demographics. i found it was always better to jokingly call them out on it rather than react in a serious chastising way towards them. by being light hearted about it, it got them to talk more and they would listen better to your responses. nobody likes to be schooled but it's good to be able to bring taboo topics to the surface rather than hidden away where they only grow like a cancer.
This is a good way to address it... truth delivered with a feather instead of a fist knocks people off balance and lets them know just how transparent they are without charging emotions. However, this will not work with a psychopath, malevolent narcissist and other terminally sick souls et al the scumbags that have harnessed lawfare against us. One has to possess a conscious in order to care. I am just waiting for the locust people to devour themselves.
Really brilliant essay. Around here we used to say "You've got to let the Nazis march in Skokie," one of the cruelest plans by cretins to traumatize Holocaust survivors, yet saying that was a kind of deference to principle, despite there being someone who you wanted to silence (or worse) with every proverbial fiber of your being. The last eight years and the internet have eroded that deference. The wonderful thing about this essay is that it is almost koanic in how it disrupts the online mind's entrained wish to object to some position or other. Quite powerful. Like a secular sermon for our dark age.
“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
Very thought provoking post. Thank you. I thinkthat hate whether justified or not is a human emotion. The inferred opposite is love. I think both words are being used for political advantages. The word love is also being used to push the Trans agenda. I'm not going to wade into that societal quagmire but it is a favorite slogan on placards at their rallies/ parades/ protests. It's all in the name of love. When society uses the word to further a social and political agenda it cheapens the word and deprives it of its true meaning. We have elevated hate to the same level. I looked up several definitions of hate tonight and one that resonated with me was " hatred or hate is an intense emotional response towards certain people, things or ideas. So what does that actually mean? Particularly when it comes to things or ideas. Is it merely a difference of opinion and unfortunately in our current time in history it doesn't fit the narrative.
The idea of trying to regulate hate is akin to thought control. At different times in our past it is possible that hate used as an emotion may very well have contributed to our survival. It may have been a preservation instinct.
As for the word love as an appeal to our emotions to achieve a political agenda, it too fails at all levels. Both words have been cheapened and have become nothing but buzz words to further achieve political agendas.
I'll wade into the societal quagmire here. I'm a 'nonbinary person' myself. Don't like that term 'cuz my 'gender identity' is more complicated than what's on posters these days. I'm not 'trans' but I would have been labelled as such during my youth in the 60s.
Would I have been medically, surgically transitioned, had it been possible? Maybe.
Tell me I'm a 'hater' because I think it's a bad idea to do that lightly? Well, it would have destroyed the 'love life' I created out of the complex mess I am. Calling something 'love' that erases people like me, well, I can tell you that ain't love.
I talk about love a lot these days. But it's not the type of love that says someone is lesser because they disagree with my opinions.
The divide and conquer strategy is succeeding. Vax v Antivax, Black v White, Woke v Hate, Climate v Hoax, Trump v Biden, Trans v Women v Men, Virus v No virus. When will the gullible wake up? The only war that counts is Elites versus Everyone else!
While everyone is busy fighting something the real threats are going along nicely in the backrooms. Divergent of energy, keeping people in angst, fearful, on edge and not happy helps the elites push their agenda.
Koala, Well stated! Why waste energy and time by promoting superficial actions and magnifying divisions, when time, energy, resources, and intelligence can be more creatively expended on powerful, positive methods of upholding freedom.
Oh yes Leonara, we need to spend time uniting people despite any differences, I am sure this is why they promote division to weaken us.
Bingo!
If you were a poet, here's the poem you might have written: https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/versus
Spot on Robert. What we are witnessing is classic elite "divide & conquer" tactics on steroids. When all the institutional structures of society are implementing as policy, and spouting as "truth" - the same irrational, illogical, anti-science narratives - you know you're being gaslighted by the big boys.
Essential v. non-essential.
Everything they do is designed to harm and kill us.
This sounds fair to me. And wise.
I, a "South Asian," hated -- yep, hated -- that "Stop Asian Hate" slogan in particular. It's 100% designed to cause antagonism. Just like so many other social justice slogans. Some excellent examples of insanity in here, thanks.
funny how all those posters just sprang up out of nowhere during the plandemic
Yep, my friend and I would walk around the empty streets of San Francisco and comment on that very phenomenon! 🤔
Yeah but there was some genuine hatred against Asians but probably not South Asians nearly as much
Yes but take it from a person who’s had to (and her family members also) endure her fair share of dumb racist comments since she was a child, whilst living in many different countries, this marketing slogan is designed to incite hate and perpetuate victimhood mentality.
Same with the BLM one; my dislike for those three little words does not mean that I don’t recognize that black people can experience racism.
"...designed to incite hate and perpetuate victimhood mentality." — nailed it!
Yes, but I think that at that specific time in history (“Covid”) people of Chinese/Korean/Japanese really bore the brunt of the hatred. I’m not dismissing what you have said. 👍
Another thing, with respect to being “Asian”/“South Asian”: a couple of months ago, when I linked to my 50 Shades of Beige video on another Substack which was talking about racism, some guy, after having watched it, wrote a really mean-spirited comment, all based on his assumption that I must be super wealthy, simply because I was “South Asian.” I never responded because he was clearly trying to goad me, but he was wrong: I grew up very poor and have never been wealthy (mostly due to my choice of profession — artist — and recently exacerbated due to my speaking out about Covid insanity).
Always consider how Hollywood markets your 'tribe' to a country. What movies get nudged to the front of the media? How are 'you' portrayed? How am I? How are they? What country do they want me to like, love or help? Which ones do your fave celebs hero up in? Which block do you check and what does the Chill and Netflix Binge culture like to present?
In a subdivided world, we all get there somehow...
Right. Cultivate a habit of looking behind The Curtain...
Absolutely correct. 👌🏾
What an ignorance and paucity of generosity.~~~This all makes me think of a very courageous sweet Vietnamese woman who was my nail contact before I moved to Phx . She told me that she and her two year? old son sat in the open waters with others in a full boat waiting for rescue after the war. If I still lived there it is likely I would have kept in touch with her. After what she went through still a sweet spirit and kindness.
People don’t seem to mind coming across as ignorant on the internet!
That’s bizarre- assuming someone is super wealthy…
I think he just wanted to hate somebody that day; I should have said, “Hey man, stop Asian hate!” 😬
Yeah, I get what you’re saying. 👍🏽
Funnily enough, “South Asians” (Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans…) are called “Asian” in the UK, where I’m originally from… as in, was born.
Yes, in the US I think we think of Asians as being Japanese/Chinese/Koreans and tend to identify Indians (including Sri Lankans and Pakistanis) as basically “Indian”… I think “Asian” and this “stop Asian hate” means something else here…
Regardless of who it pertains to, honestly my own thoughts are that it’s good ol’ Sorus-funded social engineering.
Ha! There’s not even a standardized test for “COVID”, but there is the Constitution of the United States of America which the extraordinarily evil Trump suspended by his lies. I’m not sowing discord, I’m throwing the truth right back in the faces of those who support Mr Operation Warp Speed because, as a truth teller, I am not their enemy, I have no reason to let these people exonerate the worst and most destructive Commander in Chief in US History.
that's ambiguous, it could either mean "stop asian hate" or "stop asian hate."
Yes, it could go either way, right? The other way being, me — an “Asian” — I must stop hating!
"Speak only if your words are better than the silence."
Attributed to Buddha
or "shut your mouth when you talk to me" attributed to Magda Wood
🤣
The hate speech legislation that passed under P Clinton in the 1990's without much reasoning or much support was the beginning of official controlled speech in the US.
That the government determines what hate speech is exactly like the government determining what misinformation is. It is the giant gov't blob that wins the prize of both hate speech and misinformation, think "safe and effective," or "two weeks to slow the spread."
I just wish the rigged game with the ever-shifting rules was transparent to everyone and not just to a few. If more saw through this the blob would not be able to get away with their idiotic manipulation of everything.
Sam Melia found out
Divide and Conquer - it works
It really is that simple. Dialectal warfare is how you get your opponents attacking each other instead of those attacking them.
Simple yes, Ancient, yes. We are/were studied like rats, so we can be easily persuaded and distracted.
Thanks for reporting, and for bringing some sanity to the whirlwind.
Re: "Such zealots (all of them “vaccinated,” maybe?)"— funny, that was the first thing that crossed my mind.
Their ability to be the biggest exploiters of the most vulnerable populations while pretending to be their defenders. No one is buying this B.S. anymore. C.J. Hopkins said it right, it's a wonder anyone can talk to anyone anymore. Exactly what they wanted.
I agree but some of us are doing our best to counter that drive to shut us up. I'll talk to anyone and everyone who'll talk to me. I'm even nice to other people. Wow. What a concept. Thinking people should try to be kind to each other. Who was that guy who got in trouble for it? You know, the one with the cross? (btw, I'm an atheist myself)
And I'm a Christian. They'll go after the Christians with a vengeance. Does atheist mean you don't think there is a higher power other than yourself? I don't know all the definitions. I think when people are silent and centered, the answer to all of this will naturally come to them. Believing in the religious dogma without knowing the history is a problem. They've destroyed so much as they want us to feel untethered, without direction or anchor to a higher moral authority born within us and through us.
I don't know all the formal definitions myself. I don't believe in any kind of embodied God. That doesn't mean there isn't one, just that I've never felt it/him/her/whatever.
I certainly acknowledge that there are things bigger anything human beings can imagine and plenty that we don't understand. I used to meditate and sometimes would feel quieter, although never silent. Never had anything like an embodied God come to me. More like a bigger image of what I was - not ending at the boundaries of my body.
I am tethered to the Earth. I walk most places and am always on the Earth and under the sky.
My father passed at a time I was not as connected to my roots of Christianity, and as I was standing in his room, I knew the minute before he was about to go. I told my brother he was about to go. I don't know how I knew. When he passed quietly, a light flashed up through him and through the ceiling. I asked my brother if he saw this. He didn't. After my sister passed unexpectedly my sorrow was so dark, I was on a flight heading home and I felt her arms embrace me in my seat. It scared me but not for long. I've had a few encounters that I was not looking for. Are there messages all around us that we are disconnected from? All the time but only let in the divine ones is my motto.
I agree there seem to be messages that we are disconnected from! Sounds like you got a couple of them.
All by design. All according to plan. Clearly, “hate” and 'fighting hate” are simply “elite”-directed weapons of division in their vast divide-and-conquer arsenal. From https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/versus ...
Unwaveringly true to the fools
the fates have us play in this life
sadly we slice and dice ourselves into tribes
at the stealth behest of our rulers;
into tribes shrewdly maneuvered
by the-powers-that-be to prevent
we-the-plebs from uniting and fighting
the possessed point-oh-one percent.
“Such unawareness is especially egregious among CRT zealots and others (like Spike Lee) who hold that “black people” can’t be racists...” — Yup! Here's a poetic take on this grift you're sure to like… https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/shades
Yep! You might appreciate my short film asserting that every human is a Shade of Beige (with a capital B) in the first link here: https://open.substack.com/pub/sanefrancisco/p/merry-christmas-from-sane-francisco
Nice Beige Job grl! ❤️
Thank you! ✨🙏🏾
I did.
Perfect, innit? The groove, the vid, the voice ... perfect!
Aw, cheers, mate! 😬
Love that! And anyway, who are we without our brain? Which is, remind me, what color?!!! LOL LOL
It’s also BEIGE matter! 🧠
That was a lot of fun to watch - great job! I'm a Swedish-Mexican... A spicy cold shot that doesn't see a point to life absent the abundance of our wonderful "differences" and creative pursuits. Think I gotta join your sub ;). I actually have a song I wrote and recorded about Mumbai inspired by a friend that lives there.
What a list! 😳. I’ve found Love of all life to be much stronger than the hate squirrel of the moment. One positive from all this mess has been honing my discernment 💕😎. It’s so much easier to chase one’s tail of the current outrageous assault on so many fronts.
Thank you Mark C M !
Yeah, firm, steadfast focus on 'love of all life', as you say. Add in the sky, clouds, earth, sun, rivers, seas, and the like, and you've got where I'm at these days.
Yes! It’s ALL an enormous beautiful transactional universe we humans are merely a part of
And a small part at that. Just came back from my walk along the sea here in Devon. We are tiny compared to the sky and sea.
ya forgot the "commie hate"--now sure, we in the US don't wanna be USSR or CCP but (inconveniently) many of our most brilliant writers, thinkers, labor organizers an' "good eggs" intellectually an' otherwise were "commies" (later changed their stripes... 'er sickles...) from John Steinbeck ta Woodie Guthrie, Clifford Odets--an' (oy vez mir) today the Jews ("Chews!") are bein' blamed for RUININ' America an' all of Western Culture AND "All White People" b/c a lott've 'em were commies -- denyin' their change of heart an' the natural invalidation to "do something don't just sit there!" (ingrained in even the secular...). Them "Protocols" (aka "protoCULLS" are back like bums on the Bowery on a Wednesday mornin' after a Tuesday night bum rush!)
ALSO Mark Twain, Dick Gregory, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Joan Rivers -- I LOVE LOVE LOVE all'ev 'em--none "peecee" (wull I ain't neither) -- an' yup, they took out Joan over "Michael" which wuz too bad cuz she loved her gay follow'erz--genuinely! (I think it wuz the deep state risk as the lady was more of a homophile than the oppy-site). May she--an' all've'em RIP. (RIP to ALL the great non-peecee comedians--Red Foxx, Richard Pryor, Belle Barth!!!!! an' of course Carlin!!!!)
The 3 most misunderstood (and most important) words in the New Testament:
"resist not evil".
"resist" = fear and/or hate. Which are really the same thing.
As soon as someone reacts with fear or anger they are feeding into the negative energy and doing exactly what the perpetrator wants. It's like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
The best way to deal with a Bully is to ignore the Bully.
It can also help to face him down, which needn't be a gesture of mere rage.
That has always been my experience in life - you have to face them or they will not quit.
Exposing their treachery as you and others have done, is one thing, Mark. That is useful and necessary, and I commend you for doing so.
But I was addressing this in the context of "How do you "fight hate" without feeding it?".
What you resist persists? Respond with love?
Correct. "Love conquers all".
Oh, yeah, mate. Sweet gentle conquest.
Larry, Bingo! That "resist not evil" instruction is profoundly insightful about human nature.
i've worked with and been friends with some colleagues over the years who had terrible views on certain demographics. i found it was always better to jokingly call them out on it rather than react in a serious chastising way towards them. by being light hearted about it, it got them to talk more and they would listen better to your responses. nobody likes to be schooled but it's good to be able to bring taboo topics to the surface rather than hidden away where they only grow like a cancer.
This is a good way to address it... truth delivered with a feather instead of a fist knocks people off balance and lets them know just how transparent they are without charging emotions. However, this will not work with a psychopath, malevolent narcissist and other terminally sick souls et al the scumbags that have harnessed lawfare against us. One has to possess a conscious in order to care. I am just waiting for the locust people to devour themselves.
''Truth delivered with a feather instead of a fist.' I like that!
When you step back and watch, it's exactly like a world full of angry drunks. That hangover is going to hurt.
Really brilliant essay. Around here we used to say "You've got to let the Nazis march in Skokie," one of the cruelest plans by cretins to traumatize Holocaust survivors, yet saying that was a kind of deference to principle, despite there being someone who you wanted to silence (or worse) with every proverbial fiber of your being. The last eight years and the internet have eroded that deference. The wonderful thing about this essay is that it is almost koanic in how it disrupts the online mind's entrained wish to object to some position or other. Quite powerful. Like a secular sermon for our dark age.
Here I will give you the Dickens:
“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Perfect
Very thought provoking post. Thank you. I thinkthat hate whether justified or not is a human emotion. The inferred opposite is love. I think both words are being used for political advantages. The word love is also being used to push the Trans agenda. I'm not going to wade into that societal quagmire but it is a favorite slogan on placards at their rallies/ parades/ protests. It's all in the name of love. When society uses the word to further a social and political agenda it cheapens the word and deprives it of its true meaning. We have elevated hate to the same level. I looked up several definitions of hate tonight and one that resonated with me was " hatred or hate is an intense emotional response towards certain people, things or ideas. So what does that actually mean? Particularly when it comes to things or ideas. Is it merely a difference of opinion and unfortunately in our current time in history it doesn't fit the narrative.
The idea of trying to regulate hate is akin to thought control. At different times in our past it is possible that hate used as an emotion may very well have contributed to our survival. It may have been a preservation instinct.
As for the word love as an appeal to our emotions to achieve a political agenda, it too fails at all levels. Both words have been cheapened and have become nothing but buzz words to further achieve political agendas.
I'll wade into the societal quagmire here. I'm a 'nonbinary person' myself. Don't like that term 'cuz my 'gender identity' is more complicated than what's on posters these days. I'm not 'trans' but I would have been labelled as such during my youth in the 60s.
Would I have been medically, surgically transitioned, had it been possible? Maybe.
Tell me I'm a 'hater' because I think it's a bad idea to do that lightly? Well, it would have destroyed the 'love life' I created out of the complex mess I am. Calling something 'love' that erases people like me, well, I can tell you that ain't love.
I talk about love a lot these days. But it's not the type of love that says someone is lesser because they disagree with my opinions.