I respectfully but totally disagree with that statement. Fear has nothing to do with hate. Hate and fear are two totally different human emotions, both I may add, are almost always for the most part, uncontrollable. A person can't control hate any more than he/she can control breathing while asleep. A person CAN control his/her ACTIONS from either emotion though, but they will still be there regardless of the action taken whether it be good or bad. There are lawmakers, judges, politicians, policemen, preachers, teachers, and the list goes on and on that feels the same way I do in their hearts that hates people for any number of reasons, and that list goes on and on also, and some would anilalate whole countries if it were in their control. Out of six billion + people in this world, 100 percent is hated by someone for one reason or another. Being different is one of them. Maybe misunderstanding is another reason for hate.
You disagree that hatred is born of fear; yet, you show no basis for hatred to exist without fear. Fear becomes hatred, it is not a separate emotion until it reaches that transition.
Fear of difference is a basic animal instinct, and examples within the animal kingdom abound. Thsi goes back to my original statement. As humans, our superiority over the animal kingdom is our intellect. Acting like animals is not taking advantage of our superiority.
Hate is controlled easily by logic, reasoning and/or education. Cultural/societal fear/hatred is almost alwasy based on ignorance and misunderstanding rather than any real threat.
I also do not necessarily agree with your statement in regard to all the stellar members of our society you mentioned above feeling the same as you. I'm not saying some don't ... it is just my opinion that you have a skewed idea concerning the percentages.
Hatred/fear are not required to recognize a threat/enemy; neither, are either required in seeking a solution to the "present danger." The more emotional the response, the less rational/logical the response is likely to be.
WJ brought up Islamic terrorists. Is there reason to fear them? Yes. They wish to bring about the destruction of our culture/society by whatever means they have to, and their idea of negotiation is "us dead."
Does that justify hating them? IMO, no. Does that justify hating every muslim in the world? IMO, no.
Holding all Muslims accountable for the actions of less than 10% of all Muslims worldwide is akin to those who try to hold us ALL us white folk accountable for whites who owned blacks 142+ years ago. My ancestors didn't own any and I'm not apologizing for a damned thing I neither participated in nor even had a say in.
Perhaps most of these "Semites" as you call them, feel the same about you? But your answer appears to be resigning yourself to hating them back, and using their hatred as justification.
I don't hate my enemies. That doesn't mean I can't see who they are, and/or would hesitate to use whatever means necessary at my disposal to stop them from acting on their hatred against me.
And what has brought down more white supremist/separatist groups in this Nation more than anything else is not the perceived enmy from without, but the traitor from within.
So, even from the standpoint of destroying one's enemies, hatred is counterproductive from a military sense as it distorts the reality of the situation. The usefulness of fear fueled into hatred ends with the propaganda machine.
