How do people live with so much hate?

[leftyladyfrommo]

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There was a school in Minneapolis that asked for food donations. The grocery stores in their area had been looted and created a food desert. They asked for bags of groceries. They expected maybe a hundred. They got thousands. Cars were backed up waiting to drop off their bags. They were not only able to feed their families but there was a huge amount that went to the food pantry.

I couldn't believe the vitriol of some of the comments.

How do you live so full of hate? It would eat you alive.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Minneapolis, not Indianapolis. Sanford Middle School.

More here: https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/minneapolis-middle-school-overwhelmed-by-food-drive/89-527715d0-2ef0-4f6e-97cb-a21b9f4e9c92

As to your question? I have no idea. That kind of hate is so poisonous and so inexplicable.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Sorry. I've never been that far north. All sounds the

same to me. I changed it. Thank you.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Since Minneapolis is now Ground Zero,

you'll probably remember it after this. (Indianapolis isn't really "the north." It's kind of south)

[42bambi]

2. Haters Love to Hate. We will never fully understand, our brains aren't wired like theirs. nt

[stillcool]

3. I've been working on it for years...

can't seem to find the magic. Instead of the hate grabbing hold, I get the tears.

[Solly Mack]

5. Active hate is exhausting but most racism is steady

rather than a spike or a burst. Oh, racism can and does spike but for the most part racism simply flows effortlessly through the thinking of racists.

They don't see the racist stereotypes they embrace as racist, they see them as the truth. They never question why they believe a certain way because why would they if what they believe is true?

So they can say and write the most horrendously clueless things that cause others to stagger from the root hate and ignorance of it all.

You hear the hate and the ignorance. They don't.

The result being they don't experience the physical weariness such negative emotions cause.

Their hate doesn't eat them alive because they don't experience it as hate. They think they're right. They feel good about saying it. They believe what they're saying.

Sure, racists will deliberately provoke people and they know saying certain things will cause another person pain. Still, they take joy from the doing. Joy isn't a negative emotion even if it comes from something that is wrong by any reasonable standard.

Racists are insulated by their own ignorance and their feelings of righteousness.

Active hate, the type people feel bursts of and usually feel bad about isn't how a racist experiences hate.

A racist who is driven to acts of physical violence can compartmentalize their actions.

When Brian De La Beckwith murdered Medgar Evers he didn't fret and fume, working himself up to doing it. He decided Evers must die and then did it. Murdering Evers didn't bother Beckwith because Beckwith saw it as the right thing to do. Beckwith took joy in his hate. He took pleasure in his actions. Beckwith didn't even see it as murder.

But Beckwith would have been outraged by the murder of a white person.

When you don't see a people as human, it's easier to kill them. Easier to enslave them, to harm them, to mock the pain they feel because of your actions.

If you feel that way, then the ill effects of your hate rarely cause you grief.

Even when a racist says things like - Yes. I hate them - they still don't feel it as a negative. They see that hate as good and natural.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. I even see it here but not nearly as often.

Someone will make a statement and the person answering comes back with something very condescending and sarcastic because how could someone actually say something so stupid. I think they think it makes them sound intellectually superior. Actually it just sounds rude.

And then there are the people who are always kind and considerate and not condescending.

But I live in KCMO and most people here are extremely polite. It drives some people crazy. What they really think is not obvious. You have to know the codes.

[Nevilledog]

12. Powerful post. Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

13. You're welcome

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. One person said it probably was all GMO.

I don't get it.

I'm sure hungry people want to know that first.

I can't even read the comments on CNN. I wonder hiw many are bots? You see kind of the same mindless comments that don't really say much. They just use a lot of vulgar language.

[alwaysinasnit]

9. I think many people confuse GMO with genetically engineered food. Seedless watermelons are an

example of GMO's.

https://agbiotech.ces.ncsu.edu/q1-what-is-the-difference-between-genetically-modified-organisms-and-genetically-engineered-organisms-we-seem-to-use-the-terms-interchangeably/

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. Probably everything we eat has been genetically modified.

Most of the wild varieties are so small they would make one bite.

That is one thing I don't pay any attention to. I don't know anything about it. If you modify anything about a food wouldn't that mean the genes are modified?

[alwaysinasnit]

11. +1000

[applegrove]

14. Being in a cult takes lots of tending. That much hate is not natural. It

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takes constant perception of the cult under atrack by the scapegoats. Really the scapegoats just want freedom for everybody, including those inside the cult who are victimized by the hate inserted inside themselves by their leaders. Freedom for everyone except the cult leaders is what blm wants.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. I worked with a holy roller preacher.

They are a really odd bunch. They get all jazzed up and speak in tongues and fall on the ground.

That man was one of the meanest people. He absolutely hated Catholics. So I told him one day about the Sisters of Mercy here in KCMO. They wear all white traditional habits. They are all medically trained. They go out every nite to houses where there are family members that need 24 hour care and they stay all night so the care givers can get some sleep.

He has a terribly handicapped daughter that needs 24 hour care. And that made him stop and reconsider for a moment at least.

I don't know what made him so mean.

[applegrove]

17. Good for you.

[crickets]

16. I saw that. It was so wonderful.

It reminded me to be grateful for my own blessings and to send a donation to my local food bank.

I don't understand the hate either, but one of the ways to work against it is to live your own life the best you can and pay it forward when you can. I think what happened at the Minneapolis food drive shows just how many people are filled with love instead, and that the haters are far outnumbered.