What's So Bad About Hate?' By Andrew Sullivan Readings

The title is significant to the plot for a number of reasons. For example, at the beginning of the book an article from the ¨GARVIN COUNTY SUN-TRIBUNE¨ this article explained what happened May 8th, 2008. May 8th, 2008, was the day Nick Levil decided to shoot people who were written down on a list… The ¨Hate List.¨ The ¨Hate List¨ was a list Valerie Leftman began to make in a red spiral notebook, all about the things she hated. People, food, places, objects, weather… In chapter 10 Valerie meets the ¨staff physiatrist at Garvin General.¨ (Dr. Dently) She is then forced to answer questions in order for Dr. Dently to evaluate her. After questioning Valerie is forcefully placed into a wheelchair and taken up to the

The Third Reich was a racially motivated killing machine that resulted in the death of six million Jews. However, the regime’s murderous campaign was a response to a set of circumstances that allowed it to obtain control over Germany. Today, the question of what circumstances ignited the Third Reich has gained attention from historians all over the world while creating a variety of possibilities. Thus, the different perspectives have caused the subject to become controversial among the devoted historians. This is especially true when considering the views of writers Daniel J. Goldhagen, Robert Gellately, Hans Mommsen, and Norman M. Naimark.

In Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney shows a women’s identity being downgraded in her poem Left. She describes a scene to the reader that seems rather unpleasant. As the reader reads this poem, they may even feel suspense. A specific example of identity is a woman in the poem who has made a sign asking for help. Her sign was missing the letter e on the word please which the reader probably thinks isn’t a big problem. As you continue reading, Finney writes that the woman did not receive help and asks the reader if it was because her sign was not spelled right. This shows that people may judge people just by looking at them. This woman was not treated the same as everyone else because her sign was incorrect. Finney continues to write about the options related to why the woman was not saved. She says, “or was it because the water was rising so fast there wasn’t time” (Finney, 14). Finney is showing the reader that an

When describing a court case in which hate speech was involved, the writer establishes the “motivation for - the thinking that results in - criminal behavior” of an act. The use of dashes allows for the writer to quickly point out that words with multiple connotations can prove problematic in the field of law because a word may invoke different ideas in different groups. The author displays that a solution that solidifies exactly what separates hate speech from the rest of the crimes needs to be found to protect the 1st Amendment and citizens’ safety. In relation to the previous example, the author presents that the criminal was protected because the behavior “was directed at a particular victim, not because of Mitchell’s thoughts.” By clarifying that the criminal behavior was due to how the act was carried out, the author acknowledges that there are inherent flaws with the law today.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” (Martin Luther King Jr). Hate crimes are a big problem in the world today and need to be stopped. To end hate crimes people need to learn to look past what is on the outside of a person and learn to love what it on the inside. In the selection, Why We Need to Tolerate Hate by Wendy Kaminer, Kaminer emphasizes what hate crimes are and how they are treated differently than other crimes. Since hate crimes are a problem in the world today, we need to understand if hate crime prosecution is prosecution of thought and belief, the change of hate crime laws over time, and the way that the prosecution of hate crimes has changed over time.

Racism is one of the biggest problems today. As we look back, a considerable measure of our history is based on racial discrimination, hatred, and African Americans being treated as slaves. The Shadow of Hate revolves around a history of intolerance in America, and how the origins of race affected American people. The Shadow of Hate was an eye opener as it shows how the native Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, Jews, and Hispanics were treated back in the days. In this paper, I am going to summarize the documentary and compose my perspectives on what I think about it.

The phrase “Hate Crime” rose to prominence in the 1980s, in an attempt to describe crimes against someone based on their race or religion. These crimes were motivated, at least in part and sometimes in entirety, by bias against African Americans and Jews. Since that time, the term has expanded to include illegal acts against a person, organization, and their property based on the criminal’s bias against the victim’s minority class. These minority classes include race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or gender reassignment. These are specific crimes because not only are they crimes against someone, they are committed based on who someone is (Martin 1996). This paper will discuss the history of hate crimes and the response of law enforcement officers to hate crimes.

The offender is often motivated by a bias and their criminal act sends a clear message of hate and violence towards a particular person or group or people. The offender’s motive can be extremely threatening to people who are far removed from the actual scene of the crime. Victims of hate crimes that are chosen based on their race, sexual orientation, or religion can cause all those in the community who share those characteristics and beliefs to experience the same vulnerability as the victim. The community is then overcome by fear and uncertainty. These effects can be as devastating as the crime itself.

There has always been presence of hate crimes amongst all people: particularly directed against minority groups. Before being accepted by society, minority groups have had to endure some kind of hostility against them. Enduring this hostility while advocating for their rights earned them acceptance into society. In my reading of Chapter 7, I came across the Race-Conflict Theory about hate crimes and my mind immediately made a connection to a recent murder that is believed to have been a hate crime. I choose this particular article because it terrifies me that anti-Muslim hate crimes are on the rise. I have always heard of people who complained about hate crimes that they experienced or about being mistreated because they are from a particular ethnic

The number of genocides committed in the history of the human race is inconceivable. In the Holocaust the minimum estimate of fatalities is five million, in the Holodomor Genocide the minimum was two million, in the Congo Genocide the minimum was three million, and this list could go on. Humanity has killed itself in massive numbers over and over again. Why, but for joy of the violence, of the death, and of the destruction? In “On the Pleasure of Hatred” William Hazlitt explores how humanity justifies these atrocities and what leads these atrocities to happen, which is in a word, hatred. Hazlitt claims that since humans inherently enjoy the act of hating, this causes them to hate themselves and create toxic societies. To

Not only are hate crimes intentional, they are personal. They carry an emotional and psychological impact on both the victim and the victim’s community. This crime physically wounds, and often, intimidate other members of the victims community which leaves them feeling terrorized (Lieberman 81).

In 2005 Walmart made plans to open two smaller than average sized stores in Calvert County. In Calvert County a zoning ordinance states a retail store cannot be larger than 75,000 square feet. The average Walmart exceeds this. Instead of not opening a store in Calvert County, Walmart made plans to open two smaller stores, side by side. Even though Walmart made plans completely following the local ordinances, they had to cancel their side by side business plan due to the public outcry.

Sian picked at her nails as she went down the stairs from her apartment. Her frown became more apparent as she saw the back of bazes head. She let out a harsh breath pushing the door open, hitting baze in the process. He didn't laugh like he usually would, he just stood up scratching his face. MORE BEFORE FIGHT

Social identity is a theory which explains how people develop a sense of belong and membership to a group. Individual’s social identity is part of their self-concept which derives from their knowledge of their membership of a social group together with the emotional significance attached to that membership (Forsyth, 13). People are influenced on the group they belong to. Belonging to the in-group makes a person feel good because they belong somewhere in this group and allows them to feel important. The out-group is where people feel to be, they do not belong to a group and have feeling of exclusion and are often times treated more harshly than someone who belongs to the ingroup. This bias of favoring the ingroup relative to the outgroup leads to false impressions being made and stereotypes forming. Stereotypes help us navigate the world around us by providing a quick representation of what we think a person is like. This does not mean our perceptions are always correct and occasionally, this quick mental shortcut can get us into trouble. For example, the film 12 Angry Men stereotyping was rampant among the jury. When a stereotype is used it can cause a disruption of procedures. Instead, of inspecting all the evidence with an objective eye a bias can allow for systematic

The world has changed over many of years, its grown to be a nation with more fatality crimes and more in debt. Many people believe this society is great but others feel that its growing more and more into a destructive society.