Understanding hate and anger.

 It’s a common place to say, for example, that Jews are victims of 2000 years of accumulated hate, or that the Bolshevik revolution was the product of centuries of Tsarist oppression.

Hate and anger explainers are everywhere, especially among journalists and shallow historians.

For the hate and anger explainers oppression, misery, injustice, racism, etc. are always at hand.

I contend that hate and anger are not cumulative nor hereditary, and they are mainly elicited by social interactions such as training, education, and propaganda.

I learned this as a youngster when I tried to learn boxing. The trainer explained to me that to deliver a strong punch I had to hate my adversary. To hate somebody I haven’t met before and against whom I had nothing seemed impossible to me, and thus I dropped out from boxing.

Having shared this experience with people doing other sports, they told me that in their specialty this was also the case, that to have a chance to win they must hate their adversaries.

German historian Peter Longerich, in his research about public opinion during the Third Reich, found that half of the adult population didn’t believe in the regime’s Racial Doctrine (Rassenlehre) but that 100% of the members of Hitler Youth were convinced and rabid antisemites even if most of them had never seen a Jew.

It is possible to train children, normal children, with no history of family suffering, oppression, misery, or injustice and fill them with immense anger and hate. The Hitler Youth did this very effectively during the Third Reich. So do nowadays the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iran and the German funded UNRWA schools in the Palestinian Territories and its bordering areas.

THE MAIN CAUSES OF ANGER AND HATE ARE STATE AND NGO SPONSORED TRAINING, EDUCATION AND PROPAGANDA.