Hate

Reasons to Hate

Why is there so much hate in the world? Is hatred ever morally justified? Or does hate just breed more hate? What exactly is hatred anyway? These are some of the big questions we’re tackling on this week’s show, Why We Hate.

Anti-Semitism 101

Many Americans seem have a hard time grasping the idea of Jews as a race because they think of race mainly in terms of the color of a person’s skin. So they tend to frame anti-Semitic violence as attacks on the Jewish faith, rather than racist terror.

The Art of Non-Violence

本周我们的话题是非暴力的艺术。这是一门艺术——诀窍在于知道何时何地它会真正起作用。毕竟,它似乎在所有认真尝试过的地方都奏效了:南非的非暴力推翻了种族隔离制度,美国的种族隔离制度,印度的英国殖民主义制度。当然,要打败纳粹,结束奴隶制,把殖民地从英国的暴政中解放出来,需要暴力。这是否意味着非暴力有其局限性?如果你相信暴力只会导致更多的暴力,那就不会。只有非暴力才能打破这个循环。

Lethal Speech

“Can Speech Kill?” The obvious answer, it seems, should be: yes, but not directly. However, if one person engages in hate speech against another—using racial slurs or de-humanizing language such as “cockroaches” or “rats”—can that language be counted as killing or contributing to killing other people?

讨厌!讨厌!讨厌!

反对仇恨的想法在公共领域有很大的吸引力。但是,将我们当前的政治局势概念化为对抗仇恨,就扭曲了我们所面对的局面,低估了右翼极端主义的意识形态根源。