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Unique Gonzaga Class Targets Hate

Posted by DFO

March 25, 2009 1:33 p.m. • 19 comments

Professor Molly Pepper leads a discussion in her hate studies class at Gonzaga University Tuesday. Pepper often get the class into discussions, which tackled bullying and the lack of civility in the workplace and society Tuesday. Gonzaga University began offering what may be the only course of its kind in the country – an interdisciplinary class in hate studies. Story here. Jesse Tinsley/Spokesman-Review

Question: Where does hate come from?

19 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

JamesBond on March 25 at 1:41 p.m.
Hate comes from fear; self-loathing.
scootermom on March 25 at 2:05 p.m.
Hate comes from a belief that human rights are finite and that giving rights to others results in a loss of your own rights.

It’s not a zero sum game. There are enough rights to go around.
JeanieSpokane on March 25 at 2:06 p.m.
Hate comes from parents who learned it from their parents. It stops with you.
toadman on March 25 at 2:16 p.m.
007 is right. Hate is fear in action.
keithincda on March 25 at 2:23 p.m.
ah yes toadie…and fear is False Evidence Appearing Real, so as JeanieS says…it stops with you. (not you as in Toad but you as in you)…;)
Liz on March 25 at 3:11 p.m.
Sin nature. there can be so many possible reasons that people bully and hurt others that you can’t distill it down to any one thing. But they all come back to sin and a fallen world.

And no, disagreeing with the way someone else is conducting their life or disagreeing with their beliefs is not “hate”.

Before you study “hate”, you need to define very precisely what you mean by that term.
Cabbage Boy on March 25 at 3:15 p.m.
Liz you are being way to factual for this broad sweeping term for silencing those who disagree.
hmoffsuite on March 25 at 3:50 p.m.
JeanieS >>> “Hate comes from parents who learned it from their parents. It stops with you.”

You absolutely nailed it!
danofthecommunity on March 25 at 4:32 p.m.
“Pepper often get the class into discussions, which tackled bullying and the lack of civility in the workplace and society Tuesday.”

Wow, I can think of several people right off the bat who could probably just challenge the course for credit.
Liz on March 26 at 1:08 a.m.
I found the bit about most workplace bullying being women on women to be most interesting.

Followed up by more about how people hate because of “fear of differences”…hmmmm

anyone else have any thoughts about why most workplace bullying is amongst women???

DFO…you wanna use this one for a topic tomorrow??? (or today, rather, I mean…)

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