Key points

Hatred begets hatred and too often leads to violence. We must get off the hatred treadmill.

There are steps we can take to diminish hate and reduce violence.

Spend time with solution-focused optimists to combat hate-fueled thinking.

Humans have hated since the dawn of, well, humans, but these days it seems like we’ve elevated hate to a competitive sport. Whose hateful words, memes , and shouts gain the most views, shares, and comments? Whose amass the biggest following and build the strongest coalitions? Whose lead to election wins?

But let’s remember that sports rarely result in assassinations, murders, and war; hate too often does. We are regularly witnessing hate lead to actual violence. In turn, violence is leading to ever more hate.

So many of us are whipped into fr

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