Why do people choose hate?

Americans have become entitled narcissistic brats. People think the world should accommodate their every whim. And when it doesn't, they pitch a fit. Even when everything is going their way, someone has it better... so they think it's okay to shame or demonize the more fortunate. Common courtesy is on the decline.

I ask myself, "What can I do?" I try to live each "daily day" learning, caring and reaching out to the people whose paths I cross.

And the haters.....how consumed they must be with darkness. And I question again, "What can be done?"

Why do people choose fear, leading to hatred ?

Ignorance.

Thanks, Eric.

Using hatred as a tool to make people tow the line in pursuit of power is a policy maneuver and somewhat different from an individual's bias.

These are not competent ,sane people committing these offenses,all they need is a little to set off.

The caption to Bowers' post read, "Why hello there HIAS! You like to bring in hostile invaders to dwell among us

johntp; Hate is from ignorance and feeling hopeless. 

Jon Beck: It starts with hate. Then we dehumanize (makes hate easier) Once dehumanized we can dispose of the object of hate with a clear conscience. 

Duck: In the material world, hate is only an imperfect reflection of pure love .......

“Screw your optics,” he wrote. “I’m going in.”

when you dislike someone so much that if you and the other person were in an empty room with a knife in the middle, one or both would be dead

This is about how and why people hate so much they can kill people in their own neighborhood, how they take out hatred on people .... children, women and men they may have never met and decide to end their lives.

Hatred is a disease spread by small minded people clinging to arbitrary ideals.

Leave it to a fukwit like ET to turn a fatal hate crime into a Pud Boys anti-SJW rant... and something about the Megan Kelley reality show?

Forbes-Terrorists inspired by Nationalist and Right Wing ideology have killed about 10 times as many people as Left Wing terrorists since 1992. Terrorists with unknown or other motivations were the least deadly. Islamists swamped them all.

Maybe Susan,I for one believe any one who would kill innocent folks with a gun is insane

Forbes-Terrorists inspired by Nationalist and Right Wing ideology have killed about 10 times as many people as Left Wing terrorists since 1992. Terrorists with unknown or other motivations were the least deadly. Islamists swamped them all.

Left Wing terrorists killed only 23 people in terrorist attacks during this time, about 0.7% of the total number of murders, but 13 since the beginning of 2016. Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists have only killed five since then, including Charlottesville.

wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,

Oct 28, 2018 - 07:29am PT
Show us we’re they shot innocent people. Or sent bombs or ran over people.

SLR is right ,you on the other hand defend this crap.

However, no one seems concerned about left leaning groups and individuals, who do their part to stoke the fires of hatred. Leading Democrats are encouraging hostility.

NO ONE is dismissing liberal contributions ed

were talking about triage and how to best allocate limited resources

given what we knows is common sense that your just a f*#ker standing in the road telling the fire truck to slow down and make the stops...

This is the typical false equivalency bullshit that the right-wingers use to divert attention from their heinous acts.

EdwardT, let me try to explain this to you in terms simple enough for a right-winger to understand.

If the Nazis were trying to take over, we would take whatever actions were necessary to defeat such a vile enemy. People like EdwardT would say the defenders of freedom were stroking the fires of hostility.

Bullsh#t. We are defending our society from right-wing fascists and racists. We are not stroking the fires.

I thought liberals were supposed to be open-minded.

Then there are the hell-bound a$$ clowns who make money off fomenting hate in society. F*ck those people, right in the face...

the good in some people is present in quantities hard to discern.

Donald Trump To Speak At Hate Group's Annual Event, A First For A President

President Donald Trump will be the first sitting president to address the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described as a “rogues' gallery of the radical right.”
Trump will be the keynote speaker at Friday's event, which will also be attended by his former strategist, Steve Bannon. Other speakers include the founder of anti-Islam group ACT for America and former Trump strategist, Sebastian Gorka
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The anti-LGBTQ Family Research Council, labeled as a hate group by the SPLC, has hosted its annual summit since its inception in 2006.
"Values voters have waited eight years for a leader who puts America's mission first and respects the values that made America into a great nation,” the council's president Tony Perkins said in a statement reported by The Hill.

“Values voters are coming to our nation’s capital thankful to hear from a president who is fulfilling the promises that he campaigned on. Since the early days of the campaign, President Trump allied himself with values voters, promising to put an end to the eight years of relentless assault on the First Amendment,” he added.

No other sitting president has ever taken the decision to address the summit, although Trump has spoken before the conference on three previous occasions—even during his presidential election campaign.

Speaking of the president’s decision to attend this year’s 12th annual event, SPLC President Richard Cohen told The Independent: “By appearing at the Values Voter Summit, President Trump is lending the legitimacy of his office to a hate group that relentlessly demonizes LGBTQ people and works to deny them of their equal rights.”

"His appearance puts the lie to his campaign promise to be a friend to the LGBTQ community. Bigotry is not an American value, and our president should speak out against it,” he added.

Trump’s attacks on the LGBTQ community have not gone unnoticed, with the president rescinding Obama-era protection for transgender students that allow them to use the bathroom that matches the gender they identify with. Trump also suggested a ban on transgender troops in the military, and failed to recognize Pride Month or National Coming Out Day, unlike his predecessor.

The group organizing the summit has previously commented on homosexuality. “Family Research Council believes that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed. It is by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects.”

It is not clear what topic Trump will address during his speech, but the group’s overwhelmingly negative attitude towards the LGBTQ community has prompted questions about whether a president should be attending a day of glorified hate speech.

@xCon say:
your not going to be given another chance to 'settle' your recidivists case
the smart money is on 'no mercy'
the few of your kind who survive will be scatters so far to the wind that by the time any make it back we will have so much free sh#t for everyone
any fight you've left in ya will sputter and die
and if there any downside to wiping you f*#kers out
we will live with it...

Get off of your smug, emotional asses and vote for candidates that are willing to change this obvious movement towards totalitarianism.

Brennan is totally correct

Insecurity & Fear

Common courtesy is on the decline.

I'm disabled at this point, and have to use a cane to walk(used to be a wheelchair) I'm always impressed by how many people hold doors for me, let me go first through a door, etc. Very courteous. Seems to apply to any race, although I do see a difference with age (less courtesy with teens, increases with age----I put down to general awareness of whats going on around them, as opposed to a decision)

which makes the REAL problem the masses who keep walking away from that responsibility of theirs...

Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon, possibly

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

I remain firm in the belief that if we could put aside our prejudices and be willing to listen to parties from diverse groups and find common ground with give and take, we could reach a place that would allow us as individuals, a country and a world to move forward.

Excellent point!!

I listened carefully. And watched the actions of Trump and his people.

That's how I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that we are dealing with fanatical white supremacists, racists, fascists, Nazis, ignorant fools, and even the anti Christ himself.

Zero tolerance for Trump and his people in my country.
Zero. None. Nada.
No compromise.

President trump is now talking about ending birthright citizenship.

Why?

To appeal to the cruelty and bigotry of his base.

AntiChrist
Gym climber
Urth

Oct 31, 2018 - 06:55am PT
Jesus EdT, you desperately need to move past the grade school math and easy talking points your handlers spoon feed you and start learning how read numbers all by your big self.

Which other industrialized nations have unconditional birthright citizenship for persons born in the country?

"Salman Taseer is a blasphemer and this is the punishment for a blasphemer,"

Xcon: . . . the REAL problem the masses who keep walking away from that responsibility of theirs...

Show me where I signed up for assuming responsibility for others.

SLR:
It never ceases to amaze me how so many right-wing "patriots" are incredibly ignorant of the history of the country that they profess to love and cherish so deeply.

I could try to offer some insight to the ignoramus who made this statement, and direct him to the writings of people like Thomas Jefferson, and the founding principles of our government, but in my experience these right-wingers are too dumb to be educated, or they adamantly cover their eyes and ears when facts are presented to them.

But I'll make a standing offer to any right-wing ignoramus: if you really want to learn about the country you understand so little about, then send me a message and I will gladly have an adult conversation with you.

it is all part of Werner's narcissistic plan to rule the world

SLR: I could try to offer some insight to the ignoramus who made this statement, . . . .

It never ceases to amaze me how so many right-wing "patriots" are incredibly ignorant of the history of the country that they profess to love and cherish so deeply.

I could try to offer some insight to the ignoramus who made this statement, and direct him to the writings of people like Thomas Jefferson, and the founding principles of our government, but in my experience these right-wingers are too dumb to be educated, or they adamantly cover their eyes and ears when facts are presented to them.

But I'll make a standing offer to any right-wing ignoramus: if you really want to learn about the country you understand so little about, then send me a message and I will gladly have an adult conversation with you.

Lynne, please listen to this former Republican strategist who promoted Sarah palin in the 2008 election.

This is a moral outrage that hearkens to the worst excesses in the history of this country...to the separation of families at the slave auction blocks to the separation of native American families ...

By all means, do.

Sierra Ledge Rat

Nov 1, 2018 - 11:50am PT


Per the writings of our founding fathers:

We citizens are all in this together, part of a society bonded together by the common goal of improving the human condition of all.

Furthermore our founding fathers believed and recognized that each individual's existence is best advanced by caring about everyone else in society. It's the Golden Rule. If you don't give a sh#t about anyone else, then no one is gonna give a sh#t about you.

Our country was formed through an implied social contract with one-another, per the above philosophy. Respect other people and their rights, and our society will protect you from those as#@&%es who won't play by the rules.

It never ceases to amaze me how so many right-wing "patriots" are incredibly ignorant of the history of the country that they profess to love and cherish so deeply.

I could try to offer some insight to the ignoramus who made this statement, and direct him to the writings of people like Thomas Jefferson, and the founding principles of our government, but in my experience these right-wingers are too dumb to be educated, or they adamantly cover their eyes and ears when facts are presented to them.

That's how I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that we are dealing with fanatical white supremacists, racists, fascists, Nazis, ignorant fools, and even the anti Christ himself.

Zero tolerance for Trump and his people in my country.
Zero. None. Nada.
No compromise.

Trump people are arrogant, racist, selfish bastards

Trump supporters are selfish bastards.

EdwardT, let me try to explain this to you in terms simple enough for a right-winger to understand.

If the Nazis were trying to take over, we would take whatever actions were necessary to defeat such a vile enemy. People like EdwardT would say the defenders of freedom were stroking the fires of hostility.

Bullsh#t. We are defending our society from right-wing fascists and racists.

Why is there hate?

Poor white racist trash in America are angry about the changing demographics of America. They desire to return to a time of white supremacy. Trump is lending legitimacy to their mild-blowing ignorance and racist hate.

Racist hate has always been present in America. Racism has been openly practiced in the since the first slaves were brought here. The civil rights movement stomped on racism, but it never went away. Poor white racist trash are not the brightest folks to begin with, and now Trump is openly egging them on.

White supremacists have killed more people in America than attacks on American soil, Muslims, and left-wing radicals combined. Trump's white supremacist are the greatest threat to America than all of other enemies combined. They are the real enemies of the state.

This thread, as are many of the threads here on ST where people address politics

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair lewis

I think opposing viewpoints are essential to a healthy society.

Any form of racial, gender or religious based bigotry is not.

“I am sick and tired of this administration. I’m sick and tired of what’s going on. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I hope you are, too.”
— Joe Biden

"I am sick and tired, physically, but I work at doing something about it. I wish there was more I could do about sidelining the Republicans' agenda. Maybe if I use my head I'll come up with something."
--mfm

So is being sick and tired, enough?

Latinos in the state organized in protest. Opposition to the initiative flowed from across the political and economic establishment, and grew to include most California newspapers, professional groups, law enforcement organizations, and corporate leaders, plus a few national Republican leaders like Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett. To no avail: In November 1994, Proposition 187 passed with 59 percent of the vote.

What I don't understand is Why all who are against the current administration and the Republican party are not Doing something to change things.

If you want to be a selfish bastard, and don't want to participate in our society - our Social Contract - then get the f*#k out of our country. 

Santiago Meza Lopez, a stocky 45-year-old taken into custody after a raid near Ensenada, was identified as the pozolero who liquefied the bodies of victims for lieutenants of the Arellano Felix drug cartel. Authorities say he laid claim to stuffing 300 bodies into barrels of lye, then dumping some of the liquefied remains in a pit in a hillside compound in eastern Tijuana.

May god save us from those who would save us from ourselves.

CS Lewis was a writer of fiction. His whole world was intentionally clouded from clarity, accordingly.

He made up stories.

Reilly, I think Bimmer, BMW, stands for British Motor Works...I don't think it's German.

The jews should have shown love to the Nazis. Love is all that matters, right?

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Is your high regard for Jefferson because he is a founder, because he expresses ideas that you agree with, he was a really smart guy, or something else?

Jim: How much adult babysitting, meeting a schedule and budget while delivering a project on time have you done as an academic, Mike ? 

Sorry if this is not all that well-written.

Your distain is palpable.

Principles of justice may be...

Contracts and transaction views between people and their organizations may be instrumentally useful, but it tends to lead to inhumanity.

The agenda of the liberals is generally to advance the human condition of everyone, not just billionaires.

I wouldn't be so sure.