This post is in
reaction to the YouTube crackdown on hate speech channels, which is part of a
larger pattern of shutting down extreme voices online. The list of attributes
of individuals or groups that shouldn't be targeted seems to get longer and
longer: age,
caste, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, nationality, race, immigration
status, religion, sexual orientation, victims of a major violent event and
their kin, veteran status.
Now, although I'm not racist or
anti-LGBTQ rights, I watch this trend with alarm, skepticism, and distaste. I
think if you squint hard enough you can see the neurotic SJW with a sign of
"Live, Laugh, Love" hanging in her kitchen who comes up with these
idiotic ideas.
So, first, where exactly do we
draw the line between people it's ok to hate and the "sensitive"
groups? Is it ok to hate my cheating wife or my lazy co-worker? Or maybe is hatred, in
general, a bad thing? What if I hate the bourgeoisie and want to eat the rich
and save the planet from the ecological catastrophe late capitalism will bring
about? Is that wrong because it leads to violence? Well, that's the whole point: a
red, violent revolution. So what if I hate religious people? Isn't religion the
cause of genocide and various atrocities?
Wouldn't humanity be better off without these slavish freaks?
Second, hatred is a glorious,
natural emotion that shouldn't be repressed. I can't think of anything positive
that I've achieved in life without my hatred playing a role. I went to
university partly because I hated my parents and wanted to move out of their
house. I moved to Canada because I hated Romania. All my writing is steeped in
bitter misanthropy. The same goes for the fiction of famous classical writers like
Dostoyevsky, Kafka or Lovecraft, not to mention more modern writers like Martin Amis and
Chuck
Palahniuk.
Which
brings me to my next point: you can't do psychology with a hatchet. Chopping
off a strong emotion like hatred can only result in a fractured, lobotomized
self. Hatred is the same as the sexual instinct: when you try to repress it, as Freud teaches
us, it will come back ten times stronger and wreak havoc to the whole psyche.
Hate is intimately related to love. Sometimes jealousy can turn the most
sublime love into savage hatred, or someone we hate might suddenly appear to us
in a beatific light. Also, the term "love-hate relationship" clearly
captures the essential connection between these two emotions. In an ironic
twist, the absolute divide between love and hate that SJWs assume is a remnant
of Christian ideology. Christians have been happily torturing, raping, and
killing people for two thousand years now. So, uncritically accepting that
absolute dichotomy, that our modern hippies and feminazis find so appealing,
didn't go so well in the Christian case. Lastly, the SJWs cry, all the hatred
leads to violence. Well, I reply, first, there's physical violence and then there's systemic violence. Trump's decision not to pay taxes is systemic violence.
Extreme inequality is systemic violence. Now, physical violence is sometimes
used in reaction to systemic violence, like during the French Revolution. My
point is that physical violence isn't bad in itself and that there are forms of
institutional violence which are more sinister and damaging: the Catholic
Church covering sexual-abuse cases, tax-giveaways to the rich, The Church meddling
in the affairs of the state, money in politics, and so on. Thus, who's to say
that the eradication of Catholics wouldn't be a blessing for humanity? Sometimes violence is the only solution.
