Consider Hatred
I have to admit, I don’t grok the whole “hate-of-group” thing that so many people to seem get infected with.
But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans
‘Cause it’s very chic
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can’t stand
You can tolerate him if you tryOh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Moslems
And everybody hates the JewsBut during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
It’s National Everyone-Smile-At-
One-Another-hood Week
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you
It’s only for a week, so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn’t last all year!
Does anybody out there understand it? I don’t think the I have any conscious awareness of hatred for any particular group, except perhaps a particular peccadillo I observe (in others) which bugs me. That is I get unreasonably irked when I see able bodied people using handicapped spots. But that’s not the same as the prejudices and hatreds which seem to abound.
If you hate someone, why do you do it? If you hate or despise a particular group of people, why? How do you justify that?
Filed under: Ethics & Morality • Mark O.
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What a stupid poem! ! ! I can’t believe that nonsense. I don’t hate anybody. No group of people is inferior to you.
Living in peace with others should be a lifestyle, so it DOES last all year.
This poem isn’t about real brotherhood. It’s about people who hate people, and think that everyone else has to fake not hating people.
Just ignore the ignorant ass who wrote that poem. Let’s work at getting along with everybody who will let us, whether some ass poet likes it or not.
It’s behaviors that set me off — so unless you consider people who share common behaviors a “group”, no. And I only hate them while they’re engaging in the behavior.
Example: Idiotic San Francisco gay-chic activists out protesting in favor of assorted hardcore Muslim extremists. I want to just smack the whole bunch of them and scream, “You idiots! Don’t you freaking GET that if they ever get what they want, you’ll be among the first they stone to death? FOR REAL, not the way you melodramatically whine that we all supposedly want to stone you to death?”
But I guess even then I don’t really hate them, because I don’t want the radical Muslims to stone the gay-chic activists to death. I just want the gay-chic activists to GET that they’re like chickens out marching for Colonel Sanders — and they’re gonna get most of the rest of us killed with their idiocy.
What a stupid poem! ! ! I can’t believe that nonsense. I don’t hate anybody. No group of people is inferior to you.
This poem isn’t about real brotherhood.
I believe the poem is using sarcasm to make a point.