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The following is message I typed in comment to a post which spoke of the hating of Asian-Americans that has been growing over the last year. Further, the BLM movement has also highlighted that hate and demonization has been harmful to African-Americans as long as this country has been in existence. The following are words from an old white man (me) who grew up in the south. They need to be shouted from the roof tops.

IF YOU BELIEVE EVERY GOOD THING THAT HAS OCCURRED IN THE US RESULTED ONLY FROM WHITE MEN, THAT COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. IF YOU BELIEVE HATING OTHER PEOPLE MAKES THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE, THAT COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. HATING IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE AND TAKES TOO MUCH ENERGY TO UPHOLD. SO CALLED LEADERS WHO TELL YOU TO HATE THE OTHER OUT OF FEAR, ARE NOT WORTH FOLLOWING. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU AS THEY DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO SAY.

That Jesus fellow said something about treating people like you wanted to be treated. He did not have any caveats about treating people whose skin was darker or whose heritage was different any worse or better. In fact, Jesus tended to hang out with those who were disenfranchised and needed Him the most. He said helping someone in need was akin to helping Him. So, Jesus led by example. Remember this when a so-called leader tells you to hate someone.

15 thoughts on “HATE”

  1. I appreciate the sentiment you are expressing here. But I am convinced that real and lasting solution to problems depend ENTIRELY on the problems being identified correctly, meaning reality rather than a narrative demonstrates what’s true in fact.

    So the first problem in your post is that you are claiming these crimes against Asians are advanced by certain leaders. This misses the truth by a wide margin. Because it misidentifies the root of the problem, the solution is just as far away as always. So here are the uncomfortable facts:

    “The New York Police Department compiles the most extensive data on hate crimes in the country. These data confirm the Oakland officer’s observation (edit: this police officer spent a decade on the Asian hate crime unit of Oakland where he observes that ion his opinion the vast majority of crimes against ethnic Asians of Oakland are committed by blacks). A black New Yorker is over six times as likely to commit a hate crime against an Asian as a white New Yorker, according to New York Police Department data. In 2020, blacks made up 50 percent of all suspects in anti-Asian attacks in New York City, even though blacks are 24 percent of the city’s population. Whites made up 10 percent of all suspects in anti-Asian attacks in 2020 in New York City but account for 32 percent of the city’s population. If we include black Hispanics in the black category, blacks account for 60 percent of all anti-Asian attacks in 2020.” (Source)

    You presume hate crime is a product of whites. This is not true. Although many white DO participate in demonstrating hate, ‘whiteness’ is not a cause. Please notice that the 10 people shot in Boulder were all white but nowhere did any media outlet claim this was therefore a hate crime. Nor did you hear that the shooter was a Muslim and from Syria; rather, the suspect was labeled as ‘white’ and this was broadcast globally. What we are hearing constantly is a race narrative that avoids unpleasant facts that define the real problem and so offer us no lasting solutions.

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    • Thanks for your comment. I am making no such presumption about who does more or less hate crimes, but I am saying we have a narrative of white privilege and greater civil rights for whites that has been resurfacing with ongoing rationalization of groups that support such by a major political party abetted by several pseudo news sources. Hate and violence should not be tolerated by any group and certainly cannot be promoted and endorsed by those in leadership positions. Full stop.

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      • We are in full agreement that no leader should endorse hate or advocate for violence against any identifiable group. So when someone like Harris responds after the Atlanta shooting by saying, “racism is real in America and it has always been. Xenophobia is real in America, and always has been. Sexism, too” she is framing a narrative that has NOTHING to do with the facts. She’s blaming the wrong problem. So too is Biden when he also responds to the Atlanta shooting when he says that hate is embedded in Americans’ hearts. “We have to change our hearts. Hate can have no safe harbor in America. It must stop.” Because hatred is so rooted in our history, Biden said, it is “so often met with silence … But that has to change, because our silence is complicity” he is going along with this framing a narrative that has NOTHING to do with the facts. Both assume the act represented racism and hatred and responded to the press with a narrative unrelated to reality. White privilege and greater civil rights for whites had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this shooting. So why frame it this way?

        The same problem arose from the Boulder grocery store shooting when ten whites were gunned down. The narrative was that the shooter was a violent white male and part of what Vice President Kamala Harris’s niece declared (in a since-deleted tweet) to be the “greatest terrorist threat to our country.” Again, why tout the race and hatred narrative about whites when the facts were that this was a Muslim Syrian shooter killing what he presumed were Jews?

        In both cases, the narrative that intentionally puts race and hatred to the front and offers blame to white privilege and greater civil rights for whites while ignoring facts IS racism, IS promoting blame be assigned to whites for shootings and murders that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with racial hatred. What I’m saying is that the NARRATIVE ITSELF is racist to the core in that it assigns without evidence blame of hatred and bias on whites. That IS racism in action. In effect, the LEADERS of government are endorsing a narrative of racial hatred in
        order to appear against it because, as long as whites can be targeted, ‘they’ deserve it and these leaders can make political gain by doing so.

        So here’s the thing: This making of political profit by peddling a false racial narrative about hatred is a very real and growing problem as it becomes further and further divorced from reality. Any solutions based on responding to and correcting for the false narrative are therefore BOUND to miss the mark. In fact, religious guilt in the Atlanta shooting and religious motivation in the Boulder shooting DO share a common theme and one that has been completely ignored. We ignore reality at our mutual peril.

  6. Nicely stated. If we all truly followed the example and understanding that caring for each other betters our whole society we would be in a very different place today.

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