Essays on Hate

In his 1999 article for the New York Times, Andrew Sullivan makes a peculiar argument about hate, hate crimes, and society’s way of dealing with them. Sullivan begins his article by seemingly trying to comprehend what motivated some of the most gruesome, senseless, and brutal…

Octavio Paz’s “My Life With the Wave” illustrates the tale of a brief love affair that turns to an exchange of hate, bitterness and anger. Though brief, the relationship expresses elements of both love and hate, contrasting positive and negative imagery to bring forth the…

Violence in the Indian Subcontinent Throughout time the country of India and it’s citizens have been subject to large-scale violence on a national and international level. Events such as the Partition and 9/11 have impacted people of Indian nationality in insurmountable ways. People of Indian…

A Hate Crime is “a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in a part by an offender’s bias against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity”(United States FBI). What the Hate Crime Law does is punish criminals…