The Journal of Hate Studies is a peer-reviewed publication of the Gonzaga University Institute for Hate Studies. The Journal of Hate Studies is an international scholarly journal promoting the sharing of interdisciplinary ideas and research relating to the study of what hate is, where it comes from, and how to combat it. It presents cutting-edge essays, theory, and research that deepen the understanding of the development and expression of hate.
I get rage bubbles just thinking about it.
h/t Robert
Why do I suspect this august journal/committee identifies hate with the TEA PARTY, PALIN supporters, "bitters clingers", but regards leftist tantrums, islamic jihad etc as honest emotion.
Just hunch ya know......
jeez i hate that.
What if hate is a normal human condition, something inherent? Wouldn't combatting hate be like trying to turn a gay person straight?
It does sort of remind me of Patrick Stewart's turn on SNL, when he played The Scottish Therapist to Mike Meyers' angry Scotsman. "You've got a problem we Scottish Therapists call "Reeeeaaage."
O/T but thought you might like this
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/crime-fighting-chihuahua-stops-armed-robbers-25970432.html
I don't have a problem with this journal though I think it's extremely limited in its focus and this narrowness might, just might, preclude strong analysis. But it's a legitimate field of inquiry.
I think the focus ought to be on the nature of connections and rejection of connections [in biological species] between individuals and groups.
After all, the acceptance of others as well as the dehumanization of 'others' is basic to our species; and both are basic in all biological species.
I just think it's a limited topic. After acknowledging that X group hates Y group..then what? The dusty 'education is the answer' isn't really all that great...I think a stronger analysis would be on how individuals/groups develop self-identities, develop interactive networks...and how and why networks isolate themselves or reject connections. Ah well.
I can tell you what hate is for free.
It is an innate emotion that helps you know who you can trust and who you should fear, or a least be wary of.
When properly applied, it can provide you with the will and ability to kill a mortal enemy with conviction. Soldiers nowadays are not allowed to do that ... it's not politically correct and that is why the West keep losing it's wars. If all cultures are equal and if the enemy is not vilified down to sub human level it's is too hard to do what needs done.
Most in the world of Islam have managed to morph this useful emotion into a religion, a political system and a life-style ... THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE STUDIED THEN STAMPED OUT.
They have indeed vilified the West down to sub-human level and especially the Jews ... monkeys and pigs anyone?
And my last point ... We need to acknowledge that 'all emotions are equal' and stop prosecuting hate. Hate can keep us alive and prosperous if we use it properly.
Years and years ago, as the boomer generation started to arrive on university campuses, universities began to pop up where they formerly didn't exist. U of R is one. My first year of university was at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus way back in 1967. Within a few years, the U of S, Regina Campus became a university in it's own right.
At the same time, a whole host of new faculties/departments opened up. That's where Native Studies and Women's Studies and the like began. In order to play the game the same way the big guys did these new departments started publishing their own journals and printed articles from like minded professors across academe. The standards were pretty low. Basically, if the article submitted for consideration agreed with the PC nonsense spouted by the professors in these new departments who had created the new journals, it was published. No need for actual scholarship. Forget about real critique. It was just a vehicle for producing a body of literature that could be used to indoctrinate students. Had they attempted to have their work published in older, well established journals where rigorous standards prevailed, it would not have seen the light of day.
Did you notice who is credited with ownership, or whatever, of the journal?
"A community of progressive law teachers working for justice,diversity and academic excellence"
They have a mission statement, too, which includes:
" * enhance the quality of legal education by advancing social justice within the curriculum and promoting innovative teaching methodologies
* extend the power of law to underserved individuals and communities"
Yup. "Scholarship" with and axe to grind. Lawyers and PC university professors. What a toxic combination!
Interesting the swollen head academia have to grasp at straws when trying to define "hate".
Every one knows that "hate" is any dissent to loopy lib-left theories.
Hate has been defined, in conventional MSM mores, as criticism of crackhead politicized science, crackhead politicized revisionist history, crackhead politicized concocted social "norms" or crackhead politicized crisis mongering.
Call for papers on "hate and political discourse" eh?
How about: I hate it when politicians steal my money and then try to bribe me with it.
Or here's a good one: I hate it when Leftists import a bunch of barbarians from bass-ackward foreign countries, let them act up in whatever insane and messed up ways they want, and then call me a RACIST!!! when I object to the hijinks.
Example, I really didn't appreciate the introduction of the Russian Mob into the Toronto drug scene the last 15 years. We could have done without that. RACIST!!!
the url for their site will be rabble.ca
Hate will be defined as anything that opposes the left. Even if we say it nicely.
Kinda along the same lines as 'undemocratic' meaning any system that legitimately elects a conservative government.
Did you hear about the leftist academic walking down the street yelling, "Blame whitey!" at Gonzaga University? He was a SALTed.
Hate is double-plus un-Good.
(end of study)
I hate suchi.
Does that make me a suchist?
"Rather than seeking its total eradication, many democracies assume the permanence of hate and seek to minimize its excesses or to punish and prohibit specific expressions. Are such assumptions well-founded, and such strategies wise?"
I don't know if it's wise,but some don't try to minimise hate,but rather to exploit it for their own gains.That's how the Obama cultists elected a President,they simply encouraged the hatred of everything NOT THEM!
I agree with "Abe", sometimes hate can be a useful emotion.
One assumes there is a corresponding "Department of Love Studies", which is where I want to matriculate...
Hate Studies? A journal of hate studies?
Methinks some people have some sort of neurosis.
Joe Blow says, "What if hate is a normal human condition, something inherent? Wouldn't combatting hate be like trying to turn a gay person straight?" Well, hate is a normal
human emotion. Just as carbon dioxide is a normal component of human and animal respiration.
God damn leftists, especially the academic left. The only good leftard is a dead leftard.
Gee, that's hatred!
Need a case study in hatred?
Look no further than the period of November 2000 to present day when BDS(Bush Derangement Syndrome) gripped a nation and still holds strong to this day among 'progressives' within the United States and beyond.
Even the obvious failings of Barack Obama are still attributed to George W. Bush more than to racism(a close second) by progressives to this day regardless of any facts or data to the contrary.
It isn't that the progressives love Obama so much as it is the BDS they nurture in their wizened skeevy little hearts.
"Does that make me a suchist?"
Sorry foob, I think it just makes you someone who can't spell sushi. ;-) Unless you really did mean 'suchi' which apparently means 'radiant glow' in Sanskrit. You don't hate radiant glows do ya?
To quote a frequent SDA blogger: Hate feels sooooo good! Better than an after dinner mint.
Oh wait ... I'm white and that would do double damage.
@Brian - just another senior momemt.
Hating is part of human nature. It has a good side with bad like everything else people have as emotions.
Its there like pain to remind you what is Just & unjust moraly for individuals, or society. It acts like an antibody against thinking like socialism, human slavery, plus other abominations that eat away at human dignity. Only this can be twisted as love can as well. Into monsterious ends. In fact the more virtious emotions can be the most debased when bent.
JMO