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Atticus

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

Reply to Bucky (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 28, 2021, 05:44 PM

Jan 2021

most of the time---conceal. But, then along comes the Hater in Chief to assure anyone who will listen that it is their "right" to hate and hurt people who are "different" in any way. And, too many are beguiled into following him and his fellow ranters down any rabbit hole that suits their purpose.

Thanks for your thoughts.

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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