Hate: a Word Surrounded by Controversy 

Every word has its textbook meaning, but that does not apply to every person. It is not uncommon for words to have multiple connotations. Hate or hatred is one of these words. Hate does not just apply to a teacher who gives much homework, a younger sibling that takes the passenger seat, or tuna sandwiches. In this day and age, hate can also be a feeling directed towards another individual or groups race, ethnicity, gender, and religious belief Hate is now directed to people of African or Hispanic heritage, people that decide to have abortions or even men/women that love their sex. Overall, hate is an emotion. Hate can invoke feelings of animosity, anger, or resentment. Hatred, by the day, seems to consume everyone hand affects everybody's actions. 

America has even created an entirely new offense in America criminal law, 'hate crime'. According to the New York Times Magazine, 'In 1985, there were 11 mentions of 'hate crimes' in the national database Nexis. By 1990, there were more than a thousand. In the first six months of 1999, there were 7,000. This shows that more and people are using this term, whether it is an accurate description of what happened. It can be easily inferred that America's idea on what means has been screwed. Hate should be more than just prejudice, or bigotry, or bias, or anger. 'Hate' should be seen as to stand for a particular idea or belief, or set of beliefs, with a specific object or group of objects. This makes the word less toxic and controversial. This idea of seeing hate as a way of separating someone's beliefs from others is an opinion that most people do not care to lesson too. They know hate only as an emotion they feel when they are disturbed by a statement or action. Perhaps these philosophies are of no concern to those waging war on hate. Hate can be considered subjective. 

Hate is everywhere. At some point in human evolution, being able to know who was friend or foe was not merely a matter of philosophical reflection. It was a matter of survival. Even today, it seems impossible to feel loyalty without also feeling disloyalty. As humans, we are social beings. We will and continue to associate. Due to this, we will also disassociate. Although many wish that one can work without the other, unfortunately, it does not. The reason for this is that humans are opinionated creatures. Much of the time, people have little or no malice toward people of other backgrounds, places, or ethnicities. However, when someone insults another person, intentionally or not, it is easy to find oneself picking out the details of that person's appearance. Is that person a woman, or black male, is the old, or fat, or white, or male. These impulses are so spontaneous they can be described as involuntary. Americans have become so judgemental.