Hate is Always Hate

When anger leads to hate, it doesn’t matter if the anger is justified.

Anger exists for a reason: to tell you that something is wrong. For many people in the world, systemic injustice has created a deeply seeded anger, the sort of anger that doesn’t go away easily because it’s constantly reinforced by oppressive systems and actual, daily, violence.

There are two types of problems at the systemic level: those problems inherent to the society a whole, and those which are systemic but targeted at (or which disproportionately effect) a smaller group within the broad population.

As a global community, the deepest systemic problems relate to power structures. The difference in power affects everyone, everywhere. Because a few people have amassed the sort of power that allows them to decide the fate of others, on a whim, the society as a whole becomes sick.

People feel pain when their power is taken away from them. When someone loses their power, they feel anger because to lose one’s power to someone else is a violent act. Losing one’s power feels wrong, and that creates anger. Without some method for correcting this, anger grows.

A healthy community will take instances of power abuse seriously, and will aim to correct those abuses. Not by gaining power to harm those…