What should be classified as “hate”?
Is the labeling of crimes as “hate crimes” really necessary
or could they simply be labeled as the crime committed without the word “hate”?
Is this hate really fueled by hate or is hate fueled by
other feelings such as jealousy?
Humanity is full of emotions. There are many emotions and feelings we put a label on, such as
happiness and anger. Yet the
feeling/emotion that I doubt is hate.
Do you really hate somebody or something or do you feel something else
towards them (question 3)? Whenever
somebody says they hate something, I always ask, “Why do you hate
it/him/her?” I firmly believe there is
a reason—another feeling/emotion—behind this hate. Why do I say this? Well,
simply because I have been a victim of this so-called hate.
In junior high, I attended a private Catholic school
(K-8). Nothing bad should be happening
here, right? Well that’s what I
thought. Long story short, I was
isolated, shunned, bullied by my three “friends” who got the entire class to partake
in their actions—to put it simply, I became an outcast. I, being the naïve child I was, thought my
class hated me for something I did.
However, after having a talk with those three girls, it came to my
realization—they were extremely jealous of what I had and achieved. They wanted what I had so they put me
down. At the end, when they apologized,
they said, “We like you and your personality, but since you had what we wanted,
our actions were fueled by jealousy, forcing us to hate you.”
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