*shrug* Hatred is one of the core animating impulses of all human beings, a movement or organization that doesn't tap into it at all is one that's only half-alive Hate, as they say, is the other side of the coin we call love If you don't hate anyone you don't really love either
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South African Truth and Reconciliation used to be held up as this shining example of compassion and cooperation triumphing over hate and leading to a better future Now, decades on, that better future hasn't really materialized, and "reconciliation" turns out to be "surrender"
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Black South Africans shouldn't have settled for the whites' apologies, however florid and eloquent they were They should've kept pushing until they took all their fucking money and land But their leaders' hate was no longer pure
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my interjection is that in the popular imagination the scylla of the french revolution and especially the terror holds much sway, but in an american context i am vastly more afraid of the charybdis of redemption
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redemption, which is to say, what followed reconstruction, when the north decided it was tired of trying to reconstruct the south, and brought the troops home, and allowed the white supremacists to build the long nightmare called jim crow that is what i fear
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Any abstract devotion is pretty feeble in 98% of people, but the will to do right by people who are wronged is more robust, and whether or not it involves hatred is just down to the emotional makeup of a person Feelings are a surrogate marker for doing things, not the endpoint
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