Why shouldn’t I hate my oppressor?
Short answer: because hate
won’t liberate.
Longer answer: hatred is
reactionary; there is nothing creative about it; so it is easily co-opted by
the system. Really the system is built on hatred; so hating the system is
playing the master’s game with the master’s tools. Hatred works fine on the
weak and powerless, not so well on the rich and powerful. The first and worst
oppressed by hatred are the haters themselves; they crush their own spirits.
Haters are rigid, paranoid, conformist and doctrinaire; they lack humor,
imagination, compassion and vision; so their programs either fail outright or
succeed in the worst possible way.
If a hate-based movement
were to solve the problems that it claims to fight, then the people will no
longer need the movement, and they will abandon it, for hatred is repulsive;
but if somehow hatred makes the problem no better, or even worse, then the
movement’s future existence is assured. Therefore hate-based movements have
perverse incentives, and are inherently corrupt.
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