Hating turns inward. On the surface, those who hate seem to direct their emotions outwardly. Hearing “I hate this, I hate that, I hate them.” may lead us to believe that those who hate direct that emotion toward other people and things. On reflection, we soon realize that self-hating is at the root of the outwardly-directed hate that surrounds us. Haters within every race and religion have one common characteristic; they tend to not hate other haters.
Self-hating white people will often embrace insane policies that hurt them. Environmentally active white people “hate nuclear power”, ignoring the fact that it is clean, cheap, and reliable. They “hate plastic bags”, the cheapest way ever devised to carry things. They “hate DDT”, ignoring the fact that it saves millions from painful, crippling disease and death. They hate and hate and hate.
One or two percent of the population choose to embrace various forms of life-shortening behavior. They frequently take to the streets, publicly focusing their hate against those who stand in their way. Few things are more inexplicable than militant homosexuals attacking Baptists, Mormons, and Catholics who want them to change their behavior and live longer, while they ignore the Moslems who hate them, and want to kill every single one of “the sons of Lot”.
Self-hating Jewish people stand idly by while Arabs plot the destruction of Israel with ever less fear of retaliation. Self-hating Catholics criticize every teaching of The Church, undermining belief in the only thing on earth that can bring them closer to love and salvation. Self-hating Protestants encourage the weakening of their denominational ties to Scriptural obedience. Self-hating people are everywhere, hating all but their fellow haters.
What do we do? We are required to love our neighbors and do good to them that hurt us. The only thing that can reverse the “hate polarity” is love.
