"Hate has no place in [insert your community's name here]"

I'm no psychologist, but if you are and you're looking to write a paper, you might want to check out a few of the links at these searches:

rally "against hate" (13,500 hits)

rally "against hatred" (7,820 hits)

rally "anti hate" (4,830 hits)

A small sample:

University [of Toronto] to hold anti-hate rally: Discrimination not welcome on campus, organizers say (news.utoronto . ca/bin5/040331b.asp)

Bainbridge Island Anti-Hate Rally (house . gov/inslee/photo_bi_antihate.htm)

Rally holds anti-hate message (reviewjournal . com/lvrj_home/1998/Aug-30-Sun-1998/news/8125582.html)

Anti-hate resolution may not turn into force of law (cjonline . com/stories/082002/com_resolution.shtml)

Rally Against Hate (electricpride . com/schools/rallyhate.html)

L.A. County hate crimes decline (dailybreeze . com/news/articles/1151427.html)

the transcript of Kerri Dunn's anti-hate speech (jante99.typepad . com/blog/2004/03/car_vandalism_u.html)

Life After Hate: How Racial Crimes Affect the Culture of Northwestern University (another fake hatecrime) (medill.northwestern . edu/studentwork/Fall2003/NUdiversity/Life%20after%20Hate/main.html)

Now, one might ask, what would motivate so many people to try to stomp out hate?

Is it money (bupipedream . com/030504/opinion/o3.htm), or power, or far-left ideology, or it is something deeper?

Many of these rallies appear to be self-flagellation rituals designed to drive out inner demons disguised as attempts to drive out external demons. Now, for all I know psychologists or mythologists have already studied this, but if not it's certainly be an interesting thing to look into.

Comments

These are substitutes for community of values, for people who have no moral principles to speak of, and burn with hostility against those who do. One notices that they say they're against hate without qualification, and one might infer from that, taking it at face value, that they're against hatred of the evil, just as much,if not more than, any other kind. Then again, their anti-hate is very selective; hatred of the bourgeoisie or of the majority, or of the successful, is somehow not to be militated against, but welcomed. Well, we're against hate that excludes the unpopular types, they might say, but it is groups with high correlations to very bad morals or other deficiency, that it is requested for there to be no hatred of. When it is asked that there be no discrimination, as between good and evil, or merit and worthlessness, no values remain.