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>Haters are going to hate. I am more optimistic. Major advances of equality and discrimination prevention in many countries empirically prove that some haters
by vdaniuk 11y ago
>Haters are going to hate.
I am more optimistic. Major advances of equality and discrimination prevention in many countries empirically prove that some haters will, in fact, stop hating.
- bahargholipour 11y agoThat's a really good point.
- vlehto 11y agoI've perceived more of this sort: "OK these gay people are not evil after all. But this other group, they are evil! I don't hate anybody, but hating evil people doesn't count!!!"
- ta0967 11y agoWorks out pretty well if you focus on the evil in hateful people. Everybody's fine, only the hateful deserve hate! Let's hate the hateful! I mean, this is exactly the mechanism through which we've been able to build villages, cities, countries, and even (quite longstanding) multilateral pacts. Civilisation stands on the shoulders of atrophied fear of the other.