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12:33pm July 9, 2014

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parizadhe:

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parizadhe:

madeofpatterns:

You can’t fight hate with hate.

You also can’t fight hate without getting *accused* of fighting hate with hate whenever your criticism hurts to hear.

Man, I think that really nails it, right there.

Angry about a topic and openly critical of it? “That’s hate.”

Naw, dude, it’s justifiable anger and honest criticism. Suck it up.

Both parts though. Because it *is actually true* that hate will eat you alive and hurt innocent people without actually fighting hate or oppression. 

Agreed. Granted, I’m coming from a very, very privileged position where I can completely pass 100% as the majority, and I don’t *have* to face constant prejudice and micro-aggressions, so I realize that my opinion is pretty skewed. And I know that “letting go” of hate and anger is nearly impossible when you’re faced with constant prejudice.

But, yeah, that hate is so destructive. It’s a horrible loose-loose situation.

Honestly, I admire anyone who can come at these issues with love and patience, because it sure as heck isn’t an easy thing to do. 

I don’t pass as the majority with any consistency and never for longer than an hour or so. I face constant prejudice and microaggressions and full-out macroaggressions. I spent most of the last year getting ripped apart emotionally for standing my ground and refusing to sanction horrible things. So that’s where I’m coming from.

I think it’s important not to equate hate and anger. Anger is not hate. You can stop being hateful without letting go, being calm, or forgiving anyone.

The thing about hate is that it always ends up hurting the softest target.

Eg: Being angry at gay organizations for only caring about same sex marriage but not LGBTQ homelessness is one thing. Hating people who think same sex marriage is important ends in snarking at a poor lesbian couple for being heteronormative instead of congratulating them on their marriage. And that hate doesn’t do anything about people who have power to act on other issues but refuse to.

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    more A+ discussion on the ‘hate vs justifiable anger’ issue
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