So somebody thought it’d be a fine thing to have a National Day of Hate. I’ve already forgotten which day that was, but enough others liked the idea so much that it was briefly trending on social media, with its own hashtag and everything. Who knows, maybe they send each other greeting cards.
Hate shows itself in many forms. One mass shooting after another. Relentless scapegoating of immigrants. Ugly racist incidents. Domestic terrorism by white supremacists. It can’t be countered with a National Day of Love. We already have one of those and it’s no inoculation against hate.
Some say the answer is punishment. Lock ‘em up and throw away the key. Others say no, the real problem is all the guns. Still others say the focus needs to be on mental health treatment . . . or doing something about video games . . . or the Internet, for Pete’s sake, the Internet. Henry David Thoreau once said there are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. So it is with pre…
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