‘I Want to Hate …’
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
That’s the plan, I suspect. Trump is operating on the Doctrine of Inundation. He floods the airwaves until you simply give up because you feel like you’re drowning.
And unfortunately, it’s working. A Pew Research Center report released Tuesday found that nearly seven in 10 Americans “feel worn out by the amount of news there is these days.”
Fighting this fatigue is the real test of a person’s resolve, including mine.
On an April night nearly 30 years ago, a young investment banker was beaten and raped when she went for a jog in Central Park. The attack left her in a coma. She happened to be white. Five teenagers arrested for the crime — four black and one of Hispanic descent — went to trial. As this newspaper reported at the time, they were “in what the police said was part of a marauding spree by as many as 30 youths in the northern end of the park” that night.
After being questioned for hours, the defendants gave false confessions that conflicted with one another, and those confessions were captured on video. As The New York Times pointed out in 2002: “The defendants in the jogger case were put on camera after they had been in custody, in some cases, for as long as 28 hours.”
As one of the five wrote in 2016 in The Washington Post: “When we were arrested, the police deprived us of food, drink or sleep for more than 24 hours. Under duress, we falsely confessed.”
The boys would be convicted even though the physical evidence in the case was inconclusive. When one of the teenagers was led away in handcuffs, he yelled at the prosecutor: “You’re going to pay for this. Jesus is going to get you. You made this … up.”
After serving up to 13 years in prison, the boys were proven right: Another man confessed to the crime and his DNA matched that at the scene of the crime.
The boys, then men, had their convictions overturned, were freed, and eventually reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the city over their wrongful convictions.
How did Trump respond after having called for them to be put to death? In true Trump fashion, he refused to apologize or show any contrition whatsoever.
In a 2014 opinion essay in The Daily News, Trump wrote that the settlement was a “disgrace” and that “settling doesn’t mean innocence.” He continued his assertion that the men were guilty, urging his readers: “Speak to the detectives on the case and try listening to the facts. These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.”
Some people will never admit that they are wrong, even when they are as wrong as sin.
“Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.”
He continued:
“Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murderers and I always will. I am not looking to psychoanalyze or understand them, I am looking to punish them.”
That to me is the thing with this man: He wants to hate. When Trump feels what he believes is a righteous indignation, his default position is hatred. Anyone who draws his ire, anyone whom he feels attacked by or offended by, anyone who has the nerve to stand up for himself or herselfand tell him he’s wrong, he wants to hate, and does so.
He hates women who dare to stand up to him and push back against him, so he attacks them, not just on the issues but on the validity of their very womanhood.
He hates black people who dare to stand up — or kneel — for their dignity and against oppressive authority, so he attacks protesting professional athletes, Black Lives Matter and President Barack Obama himself as dangerous and divisive, unpatriotic and un-American.
He hates immigrants so he has set a tone of intolerance, boasted of building his wall (that Mexico will never pay for), swollen the ranks of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and attacks some as criminals and animals.
He hates Muslims, so he moves to institute his travel ban and attacks their religion with the incendiary comment that “I think Islam hates us.”
He always disguises his hatred, often as a veneration and defense of his base, the flag, law enforcement or the military. He hijacks their valor to advance his personal hatred.
So I remember that. I center that. I hear “I want to hate” every time I hear him speak. And I draw strength from the fact that I’m not fighting for or against a political party; I’m fighting hatred itself, as personified by the man who occupies the presidency. That is my spine stiffener.
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Trump is not the only one who really really wants to hate...
It is the one thing he does well.
Yea. I don't get the point of this. How many of the anti trump things you see are bogus? How many stories of 2 scoops, ketchup on steak, and dumping fish food are there? If people are burned out by trump stories.... maybe criticize the media for pushing so many BS stories?
1) A woman was brutally raped and beaten.
2) The tabloid press went nuts.
3) Donald Trump bought ad space in the tabloids calling for a restoration of the death penalty.
4) Five men were ramrodded into making false confessions to a crime they did not commit.
5) Those men were imprisoned for terms from six to thirteen years.
6) Another man confessed to the crime. DNA evidence confirmed that this'man was guilty... and the five were innocent.
7) The five were liberated aand after a long court battle, were awarded damages.
8) Donald Trump declared that the five were not innocent, and that they did not deserve damages.
Is that clear enough?
No... because I was addressing the opening paragraphs. If someone is so "fatigued" by trump stories then, again, criticize the media for the BS stories and anonymous source stories that go nowhere. If something is credible then address it. Saturating the new cycle with BS stories that get proven false or biased only causes people to turn off and hurts your case.
If there werent so many BS stories maybe things that deserve attention would get it
The problem is that Trump does something asinine almost every day... and someone else in his administration does something asinine almost every day... so there's a lot of legitimate news to report.
So... we are all in danger of overload. We need ways of maintaining our equilibrium despite this deluge.
Anger may serve, and Trump's cynical racism deserves our anger.
This particular story about Trump's blatant racism has been known for a long time - especially by anyone who lives in NYC. Of course Trump voters either ignore it or even voted for him because of it.
Much more likely!
I know some resident left wingers that really, really, seem to be into hateful shyt stirring. All the ongoing negative stories and free publicity of his many successes assured him of winning the last election and the one coming up in 2020. All the hot air emanating from the left has thinned the atmosphere so much that the resulting weak winds won't result in a "blue wave".
Talk about delusion, the quicksand is taking you down and all you can see is blue sky.
You don't even try to justify Trump's behavior.
You know he's wrong... and you applaud anyway.
He's proud of his racism. Is that what you applaud?
I think that is what they like about him. It gives them a nod and they feel as if they have free reign.
We do, and the Dems can't stop it!
You don't even try to justify Trump's behavior.
You know he's wrong... and you applaud anyway.
He's proud of his racism. Is that what you applaud?
Maybe you replied to the wrong person? I cannot stand trump or what he stands for. He gives other people justification to act in hateful ways and they relish in it. See greg's comment under my initial one as a case in point.
Yes, I did. Please excuse me.
Not a problem. I just didn't want any one to think that I would ever defend him or his boorish behavior.
Come November, the left won't know what hit 'em.....again.
That is probably true, the realization of the massive job to rebuild that which has been torn down is daunting at best, sort of like a lottery winner trying to figure out where the money will work well. They will be up to the job, it will be the crying, sobbing, and gnashing of teeth that will be distracting as the GOP claims they are owed consideration and fair play.
the white supremacists, Nazi's and the rest who have supported this vile joke of a President will feel like Vampires caught out in the sun with no where to hide, their racism and hate has been exposed and they will shrivel and wilt as they the house and senate are put back in more sane hands and start the impeachment process of the most incompetent and criminal President in US history.
It can't be a coincidence that the racist King of the Birthers was raised by a KKK member, can it?
I guess that makes Trump the white Al Sharpton, doesn't it? I guess Trump should apologize for this whenever Rev Al apologizes for Twana Brawley.
Why is it that wingnuts must always deflect?
Have you no positive arguments? None at all, on any topic?
I like being the contrary voice to provide diversity to echo chambers.
So you recognize that you have no positive arguments... about anything... that you only know how to attack.
Well... at least you're honest about it.
We have plenty of positive arguments. Trump is doing far better than anyone hoped for. He has reversed a lot of the damage done by Obama, the Democrats, and the Establishment Republicans.
He exposes the media for who they are and plays them them like a 12 string guitar
You mean he lies like a rug and projects his inability to tell the truth on anyone who doesn't kneel before him like a starving prostitute. He surrounds himself with sycophants and people with less backbone than a jellyfish and refuses to admit he's ever done anything wrong. He's singularly unique in that he's both the most ignorant person on the planet while also being the most arrogant. He's so dumb he thought Canada had burned down the white house in the war of 1812. But I guess that makes him perfect as the King of the Deplorable's who would much rather have their ears tickled and told they are right, white and in charge than to get educated, experience other cultures and broaden their perspectives as human beings.
Trump got it right on Canada. It’s the left that’s dumb. The british troops that burned Washington came down from what’s now Canada. It’s a distinction without any substantive difference
canada is still under the thumb of the UK and Queen Elizabeth is still the titular head of state over Canada
No.
President Trump is not as "dumb" as you think. Canada didn't become an independent nation until 1867. Therefore, any "Canadian" soldiers who burned down the White House were British citizens .
Perhaps not... but you are!
The troops who burned Washington did not come from Canada.
Calling me dumb? Nice personal attack, Bob.
The Canadians who were involved in the burning of Washington, DC were British subjects who were obligated to obey the British crown's orders. That's a fact. Look it up.
Jasper,
What part of
... do you not understand?
Interesting take on this discussion. I live maybe 20 minutes away from the temporary White House located in Brookeville, MD. Since I was a kid I recall driving past this historic site with a bronze plaque posted out front.
Depending on the time, place, story and situation sometimes Canada likes the notoriety and sometimes not.
Here is a read that, except for the title, gives a middle of the road background. Seems like the author couldn't match a title to the article. Here goes.
No, Mr. Trump, Canada Did Not Burn the White House Down in the War of 1812
Proto-Canadians, disguised as British troops, set the torch to Washington in 1814, during the War of 1812.
By Daniel Victor
We are now going to explain the War of 1812 to you. Why not?
We didn’t think we’d find ourselves here, either. But on Wednesday, CNN reported that the 206-year-old war figured prominently in a discussion between President Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada on May 25. According to CNN’s unnamed sources, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Trudeau, “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?”
The New York Times then confirmed the CNN report, as did The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation .
It’s unclear if the president was trying to make a joke during what was, reportedly, a tense call about his decision to impose steep tariffs on metals imported from Canada, Mexico and the European Union.
Any lesson on the War of 1812 probably isn’t the most vivid memory people have from their high school history classes, so its details may be fuzzy to many. And with the war suddenly in the news and the butt of jokes on social media, they might fairly wonder: Well, did Canada burn down the White House?
No, Canada did not burn down the White House during the War of 1812, which was fought with Britain over maritime rights. What is now Canada was not yet a country in 1812, but rather British colonies.
Canada didn’t become a nation until 1867, long after British troops did, in fact, burn down the White House in 1814. The fire gutted the president’s house along with several other crucial structures in Washington, which was still a relatively small town when the seat of government moved there 14 years earlier.
“The inferno was so great that the glow in the night sky was seen from 50 miles away,” the White House Historical Association wrote .
So you can’t really pin that on Canada, considering that Canada didn’t exist. But it is a bit more complicated than that.
The United States did invade the colonies that later became Canada and were, at the time, controlled by the British. Ask some people in Canada and they would very much feel it was their war, marked by American aggression.
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mr. Trudeau’s Conservative predecessor, made a point of extensively commemorating the war at its 200-year anniversary, spending millions in 2012 on events, advertising and exhibitions.
“Two hundred years ago, the United States invaded our territory,” a narrator ominously said in one government ad. “But we defended our land; we stood side by side and won the fight for Canada.”
Other Canadians were bewildered by Mr. Harper’s focus on the war, as many Canadians are just as unfamiliar with the war as Americans. The United States couldn’t muster much interest in remembering the war; legislation in New York to plan events was vetoed in 2009, 2010 and 2011 because of tight finances and a $1.4 million price tag.
Some people might think the War of 1812 inspired the famous “1812 Overture” by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It didn’t.
It did, however, spawn another noted piece of musical history that has been in the news lately: “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Francis Scott Key composed the words as the British bombarded Fort McHenry in Baltimore from warships, according to the White House Historical Association.
The sides came to a peace agreement in 1814, when neither side cared to continue fighting.
Ian Austen contributed reporting.
Daniel Victor minored in history and remembers a little of it. Follow him on Twitter: @bydanielvictor .
Please note that your post does not say that the troops who burned the White House came from Canada.
They were British - from the British Isles, Scotland and Ireland. They came to the Chesapeake from the West Indies.
Ummmm....... No. That's not an argument.
An argument is logic built on data.
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