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hlthe2b

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3. Hatred is a learned phenomenon (infants/toddlers/young children don't start out hating

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Thu Jan 28, 2021, 05:38 PM

Jan 2021

there may be lots of sources of introduction, but Rush, Trump, other RW media were both a source of introduction and incitement.

They may not have been the original source for a lot of people, but they certainly may have been for some. And for others, the match and breath that nurtured that flame into the bonfire it is today.

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Seems to me that Rush, the FOX crew and Trump did NOT inject hatred into our society and they [View all] Atticus Jan 2021 OP

But they are equally evil in convincing people to listen to their inner devil... DSandra Jan 2021 #1

I dunno. My experience with emotions and faulty perceptions is that they grow if fed Bucky Jan 2021 #2

I don't disagree. We all have ugly thoughts and desires that most of us are taught to manage and--- Atticus Jan 2021 #6

Hatred is a learned phenomenon (infants/toddlers/young children don't start out hating hlthe2b Jan 2021 #3

They didn't inject it, they harnessed it. Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2021 #4

Brother Atticus, Glamrock Jan 2021 #5

Thanks for that. I think we basically agree. And, as for your "smarts", I don't think you take Atticus Jan 2021 #8

Right on right on. Glamrock Jan 2021 #10

It's kind of irrelevant whether they "taught" people to hate... JHB Jan 2021 #7

Couldn't (and obviously didn't) have said it better myself. Glamrock Jan 2021 #11

oh yes, they did...they enabled the cult through non stop hatred and lies. NRaleighLiberal Jan 2021 #9

I think that we all of us posses the same six types of basic emotion LanternWaste Jan 2021 #12

GOP White supremacy n/t OneGrassRoot Jan 2021 #13