{"id":27767,"date":"2020-11-25T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=27767"},"modified":"2020-12-03T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:00:44","slug":"self-referentialism-is-killing-me-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2020\/11\/25\/self-referentialism-is-killing-me-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate It to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a meme on social media recently that read, &#8220;Make racists afraid again.&#8221; You are so in love with hating racists that you don&#8217;t realize that they are already afraid. They would have to be to be racists. Maybe I&#8217;m asking too much to say, &#8220;Make racists realize that we are all human beings,&#8221; or even better, &#8220;Love racists and help them becomes better people, and eventually not racists at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And if they did, could you forgive them? Your hate goes pretty deep. You are eager to hate non-racists even for single moments of racism they showed 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I know most of the people who hate racists are supposed to be on my side, but hating something never made it better. Even &#8220;hate racism&#8221; misses the point. What if we tried to understand racism? Maybe if we got a handle on its causes, we could make strides toward ending it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27771\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/view-through-back-door-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27771\" src=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/view-through-back-door-001-644x431.jpg\" alt=\"If you could change humanity tomorrow, would you burn it to the ground, or nurture it into beauty?\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/view-through-back-door-001-644x431.jpg 644w, https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/view-through-back-door-001-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/view-through-back-door-001-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/view-through-back-door-001.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you could change humanity tomorrow, would you burn it to the ground, or nurture it into beauty?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a meme on social media recently that read, &#8220;Make racists afraid again.&#8221; You are so in love with hating racists that you don&#8217;t realize that they are already afraid. They would have to be to be racists. Maybe I&#8217;m asking too much to say, &#8220;Make racists realize that we are all human beings,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-essays-and-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27767"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27803,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27767\/revisions\/27803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}