Understanding "Hate"

it's a girl thing

The recent explosion of hate against actress Sydney Sweeney and her ad for American Eagle Outfitters entitled “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans”.

Yeah, I know. The real problem is the joke: good jeans vs. good genes.

Of course, this is nothing remarkable, nothing compared to the hate our liberal friends have for President Trump.

Our liberal friends have become obsessed with “hate” in recent years. In fact, you may say, today’s liberalism — or progressivism or wokism — is experienced by its followers as a war against “hate.” Where “hate” seems to be the enemy.

But hate doesn’t need to be connected to the political. At least that’s what Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt says in The Concept of the Political, Part III. That’s because, for him, the political is about one community evaluating another community as the enemy with whom conflict is possible.

The enemy is not a competitor or opponent in the general sense.
He is also not a private opponent whom one hates wth a feeling of antipathy.
The enemy exists only when, at least potentially, one fighting collective of people confronts another fighting collective.
The enemy is always a public enemy.

Even Google AI agrees:

Not Personal Hate: It's important to clarify that for Schmitt, the political enemy is not necessarily a private adversary whom one hates personally. The enemy is a public, existential threat to the collective, according to the Foundation for Economic Education. However, some critics suggest that this distinction can become blurred in practice, leading to the demonization of the enemy, says the Politics and Rights Review.

So what is “hate” about? I will tell you. “Hate” is a girl thing. A woman hates another woman, and tells all their friends about it. But she isn’t going to do anything about it, except try to exclude the hated woman from her local community of women. Thus:

• Liberal women hate Sydney Sweeney, the way that not particularly attractive women hate beautiful women.

• Liberal women hate Donald Trump. Not that they are going to do anything about it.

• Liberal women hate Christian women, because abortion.

• Liberal women hate racists, sexists, homophobes. Because.

Liberal men? They are out there on the street, attacking ICE facilities! Nothing personal, you know. Just fighting the enemy.

For those of us outside the liberal woman bubble, we should understand what all the “hate” stuff is about. It is just women being women, especially liberal women, especially liberal single women.

You see, “women expect to be protected.” When they are not protected, they hate it. They hate the person they believe makes them unprotected. Liberal women often feel unprotected.

Conservative women are a bit different. You see, conservative women are protected, by a family or by a husband. They don’t feel unprotected so they don’t need to hate anyone. Of course, conservative women aren’t perfect, but you get the point.

There’s another thing about hate. If you are a guy, and you insult another guy, then, in the classic Irish challenge, he might ask “would ye be lookin’ for a foight, then?” That possibility tends to encourage men not to say reckless things about other men.

Of course, none of this is remarkable. Men, going back to our chimpanzee ancestors, are there to defend the troop’s territory, protect the females, and that’s about all. Women are programmed to do everything else, particularly to bear and raise the children. Men are hierarchical; women are egalitarian.

Many of us, in these latter days, believe that human culture is flexible and that to connect sex roles to genes and “archetypes” in the brain is sexist.

Maybe so, but I earnestly plea to our liberal friends to understand how hard it is to cut across tens of thousands of years, and maybe tens of thousands of generations.

In my view, human behavior and culture is 99 point something percent driven by the genes, and no devoted reformer should underestimate the difficulty — and the danger — of trying to nullify or reverse it. As computer programmers know: if you modify the software you are very likely to introduce a bug into the system.

But you knew that.