What's so Bad About Hate?
Part 1:
1. Can violence really be stopped by the government?
2.  What is hate fueled by?
3. What is the difference between a crime and a "hate crime"?
Part 2:
What is hate fueled by?
             In Andrew Sullivan’s article “What’s so Bad About Hate?” he talks about different types of hate, “hate that fears, hate that merely feels contempt; there is hate that expresses power, and hate that comes from powerlessness….etc.” I have encountered many of the hates that Sullivan has written in his article but there are two types of hates that stood out to me the most .

            The first one that stood out to me was “hate of the other’’, because it reminded me of two incidents I experienced; one was the time when I was walking home to school, I was a sophomore at the time, and a boy rushes towards me leaving his group of friends behind and stats to ask me “are you that girl that’s going out with that white guy?”, I was confused because I didn’t know him and I didn’t know how he even knew about my relationship, and I answered him “yes why do you ask?”. To which he responds to me in a bothered tone “WHY? Why would you do that? Why don’t you go out with your own kind!?!” ( the boy was Latino), this conversation lasted until I got home, it was very uncomfortable but in the end he left me alone. The second, was right after the first incident my fellow classmates that were Latino, started to call me Coconut, because I was brown on the outside and white on the inside due to the reason my boyfriend was white.

            Second one was “hate that comes from envy”, my junior year I transferred to another school. I started to get along with one girl very well and she introduced me to her friends. A few weeks had passed and one of her friends kept complimenting me every time she saw me with the girl I got along with. To later find out she was saying the opposite things to other people when I wasn’t there because she felt that I was taking her best friend away. After my experiences I have encountered I feel that hate is fueled by a persons emotions towards an individual or group of individuals.