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You Don’t Have to Eradicate Things You Don’t Like
Nothing is for everybody, and that’s okay
There is so much hate in the world today. Liberals hate Trump. Conservatives hate progressive ideas. The poor hate the rich. Star Wars fans hate almost everything.
Such hate creates dangerous environments that, when taken to their extremes, lead to violence, oppression, even genocide. It also leads to ineffectual movements like cancel culture — where everything and anybody we hate gets canceled or fired.
Cancel culture won’t last. If we eradicated everything that everyone hated, we’d have nothing and no one left.
Hate isn’t going anywhere
Whether you believe it’s mythological or historical, Cain is widely regarded as the first murderer. Ever since he smashed his brother’s skull with a rock, we have known hate and held disregard for segments of our experience — which includes other people — in our hearts.
Sin or character flaw? It doesn’t matter, and it isn’t going anywhere.
In fact, the longer that cancel culture or identity politics persists, the more hate we will have.
