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The Politics of Hate: Dividing Humanity

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CONTENT FOR ISSUE 230

EDITORIAL: THE POLITICS OF HATE / Simon Parcher
Hate-based politics feeds on accounts of victim-hood and superiority. It instills the belief that the identity or well-being of one group is under threat from another.
Recovering from a Politics of Hate / Trudy Govier
Hatred is a feeling of intense hostility. But it is not merely a feeling, not merely a sensation inside an individual mind or brain. If hatred stayed inside it would not be as dangerous as it is, because it would damage only the individual who experienced it. Things don’t work...
Structural Hate: Institutions that divide, destroy, and allow hate to flourish / Glen T Martin
Dualities pervade human existence. There are several key concepts in human life that arise in pairs within our experience and are defined in terms of one another: truth/falsehood, beauty/ugliness, finitude/infinity, good/evil.
Humanistic Education: A Unique Alternative to Non-Creative Education / Dr. Nasser Yousefi
Behavioral schools define a predetermined path and process for education, where all students are required to follow the same route without considering their individual differences. In these schools, students are compelled to follow a pre-designed curriculum, ignoring their own needs, interests, and talents.
Humanist Peace School – Interview with Nasser Yousefi / Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson
With the help of a United Nations agency, Nasser Yousefi established a school for children in his native Iran 20 years ago... unaccredited... He has recently been accredited by the Ontario government to operate a new “Peace School” in Thornhill in the greater Toronto area.
The Competition between Religious and Secular Countries / Franz Jedlicka
Do religions, especially when propagated by religious politicians, fulfill the typical promises that religions make : that the country will be more peaceful, that life will be better through religiosity, that religious people will be more honest and, ultimately, that religious people will be happier?
New Agers on Darwin: All You Need Is Love / Lorna Salzman
From here they make a giant leap of faith and hypothesize that the lesson of natural selection is really one of peaceful coexistence, not competitive struggle. Thus, they will perform a moral exegesis of Darwin to find substantiation for their belief.
Putin's War in Ukraine - The stories of survivors / Scott Douglas Jacobsen
War Correspondent Scott Jacobsen travelled to the war-torn country of Ukraine for a second time to provide firsthand reports on the war and its impact on Ukrainians. In this report, he interviews five survivors who have lost everything.
Your Precious Life is Worth an Effort / Sophie Dulesh
I happened to get embroiled in a dispute on the hottest topic of the day – vaccination. It had been so comfortable to consider the issue self-explanatory: vaccination is unique in its efficacy to save lives. Period. What else matters that much? Well, it turned out to be not that...
#230: Poetry by Lundahl / HP
Poetry with humanist tendencies!