Hate begets Hate.

I refuse.

Before I begin I would like you to watch the Youtube video that inspired this post, I also encourage you to read some of the comments attached to the video as well and forgive those making the comments for their trespasses. 

Hate begets Hate, it's a phrase that we have all heard before, and most have heard it so often that they merely shrug it off like many other old and cliched phrases.

We idealists never forget it or shrug it off though, we always hold it close and protect this phrase because we have to keep it safe. We need to keep these three simple words safe because those who let their hate rule them will do their best to forget it.  We need to remember this phrase for all those who hate, and for all those who will be the victims of hate.

Those who let hate rule their lives call us naive, stupid, liberals (this one always confuses me, those who are liberal can hate too), or they call us cowards. They tell us we live in a cotton candy fantasy where everyone gets along and sings songs about pretty things, and that we don't live in the real world where people can never truly coexist. They talk about how they hate their enemy of the month and that we should hate them too, and by not supporting the idea of killing them on mass makes us idealists weak. 

Well it doesn't make us weak, we are not cowards, we are not stupid or naive! We are some of the strongest people alive, because it takes real strength, real courage, to face someone that hates you for an offensive no greater than being different from them. And it takes an incredible amount of those two qualities to walk away and forgive a person that hates you so pettily. It takes a lot to face hate and not walk away filled with despair and hatred yourself. That is true strength, strength that we all need now more than ever.

Be strong my friends.