Growing up swear words were obviously off limits to me, but one word Mom disliked more than swears was the word hate. She did not hate the word she just strongly disliked the word. I remember testing the word out at home and feeling dumbfounded when Mom first declared the word as a bad one. All my friends in second grade used the word all the time: “I hate staying inside”, “I hate reading time”, and “I really hate that book.” Based off my own experience, the word just did not seem all that naughty to me, so I questioned Mom, thinking she just made up her dislike for the word to trick me. Knowing Mom was not a fan of the Minnesota Vikings, as they were a direct rival of our beloved Packers, I asked, “How about the Vikings? Don’t you hate them?” …show more content…
Just like being a defensive player on the line of scrimmage what Mom said broke through to me. To this day I understand the word hate carries a message too strong to use. Just like a swear word, hate gets applied to a broad range of things in our society. The word qualifies to be tagged to riding the bus, the distracted driver, the mean girl at school, chilly weather, politics, the government, and Adolf Hitler. The possibilities seem endless. The definition of the word hate from Merriam-Webster Dictionary is an “ intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury” or an “extreme dislike or disgust.” The definition proves the spitefulness behind the word. So why do we use hate towards things and
are simply meaningless words meant to damage, humiliate and degrade certain groups of people. To prove those words worthless, the same groups of people that those hate words
Brain knows what he is talking about when it comes to football since he is a sport's writer, he uses a lot of knowledge of the game. Also, Philips’s is basically saying that men do not seek any kind of help what so ever because they are afraid to be called “weak”. The example Philips’s uses is about how Jonathan Marten left his football career to seek help for his emotional issues. The Shadow Leagues’ J.R. Gamble called Martin “soft” and another ex-player of the Dolphins lineman Lydon Martha said that Martin was “standoffish and shy”. That Martin “broke the code”. Philips’s tone is also that men tell it like it is, and if you don’t like it then you aren’t a man. In football, some team members haze other team members, it just them being them. It’s quite funny how no one thought of Joe Heisman was soft for leaving the game when he broke his leg. Everyone supported him and was there for him and never bullied him for that. They say that if Martin was to leave for a family matter or anything other than to “seek emotional help” that he would have never been bullied and that no one would have looked down on him. After everything that happen with Martin, they put in place a “strict anti-hazing policy”. Football is like the military, because they are both hardcore, you need to be a man in either one of those, there is no pansy allowed otherwise they will send you
The KKK was set up to build an all white society based on Christian beliefs. They claim that
You would be lying to yourself if you thought that an attempt of a society based solely on hate has not tried to survive throughout our human history. A totalitarian society is defined as a centralized government that doesn’t tolerate parties with differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life. There have been various attempts to design a totalitarian type of government, but all have failed for more than one reason. A society based solely on hate can’t survive due to the obstacles of freethinkers and challenges of forcing an emotion like hate on people would destroy the society slowly from the inside out.
The term hate crime first appeared in the late 1980’s as a way of understanding a racial incident in the Howard Beach section of New York City, in which a black man was killed while attempting to evade a violent mob of white teenagers, shouting racial epithets. Although widely used by the federal government of the United States, the media, and researchers in the field, the term is somewhat misleading because it suggests incorrectly that hatred is invariably a distinguishing characteristic of this type of crime. While it is true that many hate crimes involve intense animosity toward the victim, many others do not. Conversely, many crimes involving hatred between the offender and the victim are not ‘hate crimes’ in the sense intended here. For example an assault that arises out of a dispute between two white, male co-workers who compete for a promotion might involve intense hatred, even though it is not based on any racial or religious differences... ...
In the same way as love, hatred requires a certain intimacy between two people. A relationship cannot consist of either love or hate without there first being a close relationship between two individuals. Hawthorne explains that for these emotions to exist, “each, in its utmost development, requires a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge” (Hawthorne 246). In order for either of these emotions to be conceived within an individual, the person must first make an effort to acquire a deep understanding of the other person. It is necessary to have a familiarity with someone else’s character in order to either love or hate them, and it is impossible to become close to som...
Since the United States of America and long with the whole world is filled with diversity there will always be conflicts about believes and feelings towards each other. Many people have their believes and keep them to themselves. Then there are the type of people that feel they have to put their believes into actions and hurt others or destroy things to get their point across. These believes that hurt and destroy others things and lives are called hate crimes. Hate crimes are becoming more and more common everyday. FBI statistics show that the frequency hate crimes in America are increasing as the frequency regular crimes in America have been decreasing.
“School of Hate” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely and “Atonement” by Dexter Filkins are, at a glance, polar opposites because of the subject matter they deal with. In her essay Erdely discusses how an unsupportive environment can negatively impact the well being of children during formative years where it is important to have role models. In Filkins essay we have the story of a war veteran who was put in a position where all he was worried about was bring himself and his friends home, but because of a complicated situation an unjust series of deaths ends up haunting him. With review of the themes of these two essays we can see that they are different with how the people involved attempt to ease their pain, yet they both manage to convey their messages
Andrew Sullivan suggests the origins of hate to be evolutionary in his article, “What’s So Bad about Hate?” If hate really is “hard wired,” then that would mean all of the hubbub about obliterating hate is just about as useless as trying to obliterate opposable thumbs. Sullivan’s statement carries so much meaning because it illustrates such a nasty concept with an air of tolerance that is rarely ever considered. He proposes that instead of fighting hate, we accept hate for what it is: an integral part of the human experience. Instead of fighting, we should focus our energy on tolerating hate, and through toleration we can achieve much more than we ever did by trying to combat our very nature.
Love is considered a wonderful connection between two people that brings happiness to many. Although without hate no one would realize how marvelous love truly is. Does this mean hate is more powerful than love throughout the world? Hate overpowers love because there may be so much love in this world, but with the tiniest bit of hate everything could be changed in a split second. Hate is an indestructible power that will demolish anything in its way, like it did in The Coffin Quilt, by Ann Rinaldi. Roseanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield’s love was simply not powerful enough to defeat the hate that came along with the love.
From the readings assigned this past week. The main point that can be taken from them is the history of how colleges and universities have tried to censor hate speech. The court’s ruling most of these policies unconstitutional. The courts for the most part said that most of the policies were vague. My question is what is too vague for a policy dealing with hate speech? The authors try to explain it in the book, but I feel they did not give a complete answer or completely avoided to give a solid answer.
A hate crime is a crime motivated by several reasons that include religion, sexual orientation, race, nationality, gender, etc. It typically involves physical violence, intimidation, threats and other means against the individual that is being targeted. It is a crime against the person and it can have a devastating impact on the victim. Several argue that hate crimes should be punished more severely. However, it is not a crime to hate someone or something if it does not lead to some sort of criminal offense.
The quote, derived from Machiavelli’s thoughts; “it is better to be feared than loved,” is supported by Beowulf in Beowulf and by Hrothgar in Grendel through their actions. Leaders have many choices to make; one of the most important choices is to decide if he prefers to be loved or feared by his followers. The main purpose of being a leader is to lead your followers into victory, rule your subjects and have a prosperous kingdom. So the question appears; is it better to be loved or feared.
This hatred where especially one of the reasons why the racist group Ku Klux Klan was started, and spread. In a world where there is lots of love, and respect, there is also an opposite side, just like ying and yang. There is good, then there is an opposite, bad.
From the Fall of Man, one gets a sense that hate is a very easy and normal part of our lives. One is taught to hate from the beginning of life while love is learned as we grow. Hate has been seen to be a negative emotion while love is a most definite positive emotion. Hate can easily affect our health in a destructive manner causing high blood pressure and ulcers to name a few while love seems to affect the body by reducing stress levels and even depression. Hate can cause a person to want to take the life of another while love’s desire is to rescue or preserve life. Hate has often been found to be a safe zone for many people because they are free to act as they please while love brings us out of our comfort zone realizing our words and actions can cause harm. It has been quoted, “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All the good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to