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Stop Hating People Who Don’t Look Like You, Think Like You, or Behave Like You
There is no justification for hate…period
The hate needs to stop. Of course, before we can stop it, we must know what it is. According to Merriam-Webster, hate constitutes the following:
- “intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury”
- “extreme dislike or disgust”
- “a systematic and especially politically exploited expression of hatred”
If you hate lima beans, no big deal. I too have an “extreme dislike” toward and “disgust” of lima beans. Yes, I know they are good for us, but I would rather eat green beans or celery than lima beans.
But if you hate people? Now, we have a problem.
Dr. Rebecca Saxe is an associate investigator of the McGovern Institute and the John W. Jarve (1978) Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. In a 2019 panel discussion on the “Neuroscience of Hate,” she gave this definition of hate:
“A hostile feeling toward another person or group that consists of malice, repugnance and willingness to harm or even annihilate the object of hatred."
