2013-03-26, 06:15 AM
When newspeak confuses things.
This should have been named "Imagine a World Without Prejudice." Would have saved us a long philosophical discussion on whether love can exist without hate and so on.
The clip is not talking about personal hate - hating a specific person for (a) specific wrong(s) they've done you - at all. For example, "I hate that peach who stole my boyfriend."
It's talking about prejudice - hating (or fearing, or despising; or, for that matter, admiring) a group of people for impersonal reasons. For example, "I hate Gypsies because they steal children."
For reasons I don't understand, crimes with a motive of prejudice are called "hate crimes". I guess "prejudice" is too long of a word? That name just confuses things. Personally, if I didn't know otherwise, I would tend to associate the term "hate crime" with things like a teen murdering his abusive father - again, a case of personal hatred.
So: Can you imagine a world without prejudice?
This should have been named "Imagine a World Without Prejudice." Would have saved us a long philosophical discussion on whether love can exist without hate and so on.
The clip is not talking about personal hate - hating a specific person for (a) specific wrong(s) they've done you - at all. For example, "I hate that peach who stole my boyfriend."
It's talking about prejudice - hating (or fearing, or despising; or, for that matter, admiring) a group of people for impersonal reasons. For example, "I hate Gypsies because they steal children."
For reasons I don't understand, crimes with a motive of prejudice are called "hate crimes". I guess "prejudice" is too long of a word? That name just confuses things. Personally, if I didn't know otherwise, I would tend to associate the term "hate crime" with things like a teen murdering his abusive father - again, a case of personal hatred.
So: Can you imagine a world without prejudice?