Henry Adams once wrote that "politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds," and Trump was masterful at organizing those hatreds.
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More than 20 years on, nationalist hatreds have not abated.
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Others expressed defiance against any populist voices channeling old hatreds.
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But both hatreds, in fact, rise from the same dark spring.
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A refinement from tribal hatreds and primitive fears to common bonds.
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And so there are people who feel justified in their hatreds now.
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Ultimately, the fires and the hatreds and the fears are our own.
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Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace.
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Those simmering hatreds made life harder for unifying figures like the Rev.
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How to explain the anti-intellectual hatreds of an otherwise nice man?
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The nation's politics was shredded into blood-born hatreds and seemingly hopeless polarization.
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Bach's vexations, his rages, his blind spots, even his hatreds, are our own.
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Jews of the late 19th century would have been familiar with the hatreds.
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If Yang had pressed further in examining himself or other Asian-Americans, he might have been able to develop a new approach to the Asian-American condition, one that addressed the hatreds and self-hatreds born from racism and internalized racism.
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But, as dependable old hatreds are rising up again, Grant has become more current.
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But in the heat of political debate, distinctions can blur and ancient hatreds flame.
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Russian trolls chose to target our latent hatreds, to weaponize our own internal angers.
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A country once split by ethnic hatreds is now a target for Islamist terrorism.
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The Games don't bring people together in peace, but give vent to national hatreds.
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All of it, even the innocuous stuff, was disturbing in light of their evangelical hatreds.
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Trump has become a master at fear-mongering and playing on people's hatreds and biases.
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Feature For the nation's estimated 200,000 Jews, new forms of old hatreds are stoking fear.
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Antisemitism, it could be argued, is a prejudice that is made unique among all other hatreds.
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We console ourselves that their wars are the product of "ancient hatreds" or badly drawn borders.
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How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
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Democracy was also challenged by the deep hatreds stirred up by four years of total war.
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But they can use their powers to erase old hatreds and put a cause behind their craft.
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And though there has been courageous peacemaking, sectarian hatreds still smolder, buried, like a coal-seam fire.
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Many of the political and social transmutations that appalled Milosz — the fears and hatreds — have been revived.
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The conflict -- or more accurately conflicts -- within and around Syria has intensified the hatreds inherent in civil war.
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He offers neither heroic good guys nor "bad hombres" onto whom we can project our fears and hatreds.
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Editorial No society is immune to acts of terrorism, especially by a lone wolf driven by deep hatreds.
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"Politics as a practice…has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds," wrote Henry Adams, a 19th-century historian.
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Macron went further, drawing a clear line from the hatreds of the past to the problems of the present.
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"What we know is that there are sort of hatreds between the Sufis and jihadis," said the businessmen from Arish.
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One of these is a priest whose godly wisdom consists of a hair-raising litany of ethnic and religious hatreds.
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It's about creating an alliance between two historic hatreds, predicating the imagined "greatness" of Trump's America on expelling the undesirables.
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Social media not only offer a means to spread bile, they also help to bring people with different hatreds together.
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For tech billionaires, national and racial hatreds are inconveniences; their authoritarianism wears a cosmopolitan face, promising frictionless commerce for all.
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From the days of George Washington, the United States sought to stand above the grimy hatreds of the Old World.
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"What these people do is they craft their own amalgam of hatreds from a buffet available on the internet," Levin says.
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As anti-Semitic crime rises in Germany, new forms of old hatreds are stoking fear for the nation's estimated 200,000 Jews.
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THE ACCUSATION Blood Libel in an American Town By Edward Berenson There's nothing like a presidential campaign to awaken dormant hatreds.
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And politicians have to respond to the needs and hopes of their voters, not just pander to their fears and hatreds.
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Nazism itself is depicted a bit abstractly, a matter of symbols and attitudes and stock images rather than specifically mobilized hatreds.
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But that cannot mean condoning actions that blatantly fan sectarian hatreds, undermine efforts at stabilizing the region and crudely violate human rights.
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The theater, with its openness and diversity, stands in stark contrast to the closed minds and hatreds exemplified by the Orlando shootings.
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Instead of peace, after the 1991 breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into independent states, vicious racial hatreds re-emerged.
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In war, the reversion to barbarism can be tempting in the heat of battle, and as passions and hatreds rise between peoples.
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Some critics say that Jewdas's name, and antics, risk stoking age-old myths and hatreds that have led to anti-Semitic violence.
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WhatsApp has been turned into the primary messenger of prejudice, delivering relentless virtual fuel to keep the embers of modern hatreds alive.
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But intramural Kurdish hatreds began to resurface, and by 1994 Mr. Talabani's forces were engaged in a civil war with Mr. Barzani's.
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The hatreds they created interacted with repression to formulate a deadly mix that led to 9/11, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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Surely not that the primary driver of the conflict is "ancient hatreds" dating back to the schism in Islam in the seventh century.
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He is their entree to power, a personification and articulation of anger and anti-intellectualism, a way to wrap their hatreds in humor.
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But in the opera, as these soldiers mask their barbs with comradely banter, Mr. Huang's roiling music reveals the deep hatreds at play.
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Luther, who often sided with Germany's princes and conservative forces, could be nasty, deliberately playing on the hatreds and prejudices of his readers.
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Meanwhile, though, he has added weight to the burden that we, each of us, carry on our backs, the burden of old hatreds.
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Still, Maisel believes those lingering hatreds, even as they occasionally erupt in spasms of violence, have become an outlier in the broader national culture.
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In both cases, the suspects had nourished their animus online, on social media platformswhere they could easily connect with people who shared their hatreds.
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In The Underland Chronicles, I'd examined the idea of an unjust war developing into a just war because of greed, xenophobia and longstanding hatreds.
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Facebook has been blamed for the dissemination of conspiracy theories and ethnic hatreds, and for allowing user data to be manipulated to influence elections.
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Because, even here, in this "wallflower of European history," known only for its clock museum and pink pelicans, deeply held hatreds lie in wait.
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Age-old hatreds have been married to the most modern means of communication, making them only a click away with a phone, tablet or laptop.
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Fights and gladiatorial contests break out among these desperate people, with Gaza maliciously fomenting rivalries and hatreds, which he observes with clinical, almost sociological detachment.
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In both cases, the suspects had nourished their animus online, on social media platforms where they could easily connect with people who shared their hatreds.
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A character who is portrayed as fully human — a frayed and interwoven tapestry of flaws, neuroses, aspirations, longings, yearnings, hatreds, envies — cannot be easily likable.
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She is at her most passionate taking on her fellow liberals, who she contends fail to acknowledge and fully grapple with this oldest of hatreds.
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Effectively combating one of the world's oldest hatreds — malice towards Jews — must be an effort that is galvanized, sustained and supported vigorously by non-Jews.
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It's a hatred that easily flickers between the universal and the particular, melding with the similarly particular hatreds of blacks and immigrants and other minority groups.
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His ability to forgive helped me and, I suspect, inspired many others like me, to put aside past hatreds and to focus on a better future.
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I spoke to Ebner about the book and why she worries that these two ideologies are trapping us all in a spiral of mutually reinforcing hatreds.
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But there is also a tension between his tendency to blame everything on the Assads and seeing them as the consequence of religious and social hatreds.
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But in the end, his hatreds proved more powerful than his tautological vision of a country seeking greatness, simply by remembering that it was once great.
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The audacious idea that people from all races, ideologies and religious sects would check their hatreds at the door after becoming citizens is our sustaining narrative.
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Shall we reasonably expect to banish war, terrorism, and genocide from a system that was spawned in an ancient cauldron of tribal hatreds and protracted conflict?
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A resurgence of old communal hatreds, even violence, in places like Northern Ireland or Kosovo is no longer as unthinkable as it was a few years ago.
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But these five dead coyotes signaled more than just economic anxiety — they were emblematic of past hatreds that are still a powerful force in the Malheur basin.
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Let us leave it with its hatreds and its armaments, to stew in its own juice, to fight out its own quarrels, and decree its own doom.
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Amid wide revulsion at the recent horrors, Argentina's old hatreds seemed to dissipate when a middle-of-the-road president known for honesty, Rául Alfonsín, was elected.
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In elaborate and thoughtful prose, Washington raised red flags about disunity, false patriotism, special interests, extreme partisanship, fake news, the national debt, foreign alliances and foreign hatreds.
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The residual hatreds and feelings of injustice left by the unpunished crimes of World War II helped fuel the ferocity of Yugoslavia's civil wars in the 1990s.
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In this dark age of walls rising up along with old hatreds, the show is magically unwilling to acknowledge anything beyond what comes out of the ovens.
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What is called for now is a mass show of solidarity and rejection of anti-Semitism, which is among the oldest, most insidious hatreds on the planet.
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What we're seeing right now is one of society's oldest hatreds, misogyny, being reworked in real time to fit a specific group of men's rage and pain.
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For his is only partly anti-Semitism of the traditional kind, whether based on religious hatreds, or stereotypes of Jews as greedy capitalists intent on crushing honest workers.
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Trump's combative words threaten to turn the fabled melting pot that helped make America a strong and dynamic nation into a poisoned brew of hatreds, resentments and mistrust.
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Now Daario Naharis, a swaggering penis with a sword arm, is expected to facilitate a transition to self-rule in a city miraculously cleansed of its ancient hatreds.
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The night before, the same group, ISIS, devoted, among so many other hatreds, to war against Hezbollah, claimed responsibility for exploding bombs that killed 43 people in Beirut.
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He cautioned against both overly friendly alliances (lest another country's interests and wars become our own) and excessive hatreds (lest we provoke unnecessary conflict and war with others).
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Soon, a Republican president was deceiving the country and the world into war in Iraq that would lead directly to the chaos and racial hatreds we see today.
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As the franchise continued, the opposing factions grew to include more and more races, who only set aside their hatreds of each other when a huge threat loomed overhead.
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You shouldn't be, for Abbas' comments were par for the course over his long career, however much Western leaders refused to acknowledge the reality and ramifications of his hatreds.
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Like most people who saw the war up close, she understood that the violence was not primarily a spontaneous outburst of old hatreds but the result of ethnopolitical machinations.
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Yet its description of a society seized by its worst impulses, enacting the repressed hatreds and nightmarish obsessions of its inhabitants, felt more familiar the more I considered it.
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When our leaders blast out insults on Twitter, debasing our civic discourse and our culture, they echo Luther's example of playing on the emotions and hatreds of his readers.
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He's seen that before on his own watch, when Europe's unbridgeable political divisions, age-old hatreds and appalling incompetence led to armies of poor, unemployed and shameful soup kitchens.
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We've seen, over the past few years, more and more men on the right turn to political violence out of frustrations and hatreds that persist even under right-wing government.
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And to do it here, in Madrid, in Europe, this most intimate of hatreds turned, for one night, global, so that becoming champion of South America felt like conquering Europe.
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The quickest way for open societies to lose the freedoms they enjoy and the Islamic State seeks to destroy would be to whip up divisive ethnic, racist and religious hatreds.
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What Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain calls "our precious union" is held together by 10 members of Parliament representing the old hatreds of North Ireland — the Democratic Unionist Party.
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Regardless of how you think the polls are swinging right now, America is going to need to stare itself down long and hard to rectify their naked hatreds after this election.
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The internet of old — composed largely of thousands of scattered communities populated by people who shared interests, identities, causes or hatreds — has been mostly paved over by the social-media giants.
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In separate appearances, former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama warned that the U.S. was being torn apart by old hatreds, and called for addressing economic anxiety through common purpose.
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Luther used the new media of his day to unleash intolerant assaults on his perceived enemies, just as today's new media is used to spread falsehoods and fire up popular hatreds.
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Alison McCulloch, our reviewer, calls it a "funny, serious, clever novel" about "sympathetic if simple characters trying to get by in a complicated world" where "deeply held hatreds lie in wait."
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To take an active part in one of the world's oldest and most fatal hatreds, yet to be able to say, with sincerity, that anti-Semitism is odious, not to be tolerated?
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Should it interrupt the ability of artists to travel, perform, and collaborate, such an Executive Order will aid those who would silence essential voices and exacerbate the hatreds that fuel global conflict.
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She loved her daughters, she loved hockey and baseball; she even loved her hatreds, which included Republicans (she became a Democrat after Nixon), the Yankees, and, for some reason, the state of Texas.
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In the end, though, the anti-Asian hatreds spread by the coronavirus are not solely the product of politics, but of the deep fears that have always accompanied the outbreak of lethal pathogens.
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Antonia Atlas Dosik Yellow Springs, Ohio Distorted Facts I was moved and enlightened by Ian Frazier's article on the debate between W. E. B. Du Bois and Lothrop Stoddard ("Old Hatreds," August 26th).
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Books of The Times For all the festivity that attends a harsh review or magazine profile, critics tend to be remembered for their loves, not their hatreds; for whom they defended, not destroyed.
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I am more convinced than ever that somebody knows something that could prevent this from metastasizing into our era's Dreyfus Affair — a source of unresolved hatreds for years and decades yet to come.
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The alt-right, for all its origins in old hatreds, took a distinctly modern route out of the margins of society, according to a recent paper by Jessie Daniels, a sociologist at Hunter College.
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Bannon achieved this by focusing on the movement's common hatreds against enemies they see as conspiring against white men: non-whites, Muslims and Jews, immigrants, feminists, liberals, moderate Republican "cuckservatives," globalists and trained scientists.
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His win prompts fears that the elaborate compromise, which has kept the peace in Bosnia for 23 years, will now unravel, and hatreds, damped down but not rooted out, will again flare into conflict.
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As violent anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies ripple through Europe, the United States and elsewhere, perhaps it can teach the world another lesson — about how local hatreds emerge, and how they can be stopped.
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To him and his friends, he was a misunderstood visionary, possessor of the one best way that, under the banner of science, would confer prosperity on worker and boss alike, abolishing the ancient class hatreds.
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Still, with her understanding of terrorists and her experience in countering them, Stern might have provided us with some tools to inoculate populations against the kinds of fears and hatreds that can lead to genocide.
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As the youngest and most vigorous of the great powers, it was, he suggested, America's calling to promote peace and the settling of disputes by reason, shunning the "primal" and "ruinous" hatreds of the Old World.
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According to the statement from Greenblatt, Now more than ever as anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and other hatreds have exploded online, it's critical that we are bringing best-in-class technology and resources to this fight.
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How tragic for America and for the world that Washington today is dominated by a President who thinks nothing matters more than his personal fate and believes inciting racist hatreds at home tops the national agenda.
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Indeed, watching Waldheim's campaign, it's hard not to think about the present day — from the emergence of old hatreds, to the closure of elite ranks around their own, to the weaponizing of nationalism against the truth.
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But there's another possibility, which is that a critical mass of Republicans like being in thrall to a man who seems strong enough to will his own reality, and bold enough to voice their atavistic hatreds.
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As monumental — and hideous — as both those hatreds are, you can argue that there were times when the former issue became a conduit for the latter: anti-immigrant fervor as a code for anti-black racism.
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Time and again, communal hatreds overrun the newsfeed — the primary portal for news and information for many users — unchecked as local media are displaced by Facebook and governments find themselves with little leverage over the company.
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" But Santiago Abascal, the leader of Vox, an ultranationalist party that got its first seats in Parliament in April, said on Twitter that Mr. Sánchez was starting his election campaign by "profanating graves" and "unearthing hatreds.
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The challenge is to figure out how to quarantine those kinds of hatreds and also represent your voters — because if you fail at the second task, even with the highest of principles the quarantine won't hold.
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According to the report, the hatreds of those two groups fed in part off the same social discord — battles over the Confederate flag, highly publicized police killings and the attendant rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The election of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will not magically eliminate the prejudice and fear behind these attacks, but it will provide more Americans with Muslim American public figures who challenge their stereotypes and misplaced hatreds.
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And the possibility of reasoned deliberation at the heart of democratic life has been obliterated by the white-hot racial and cultural hatreds that Trump was able to exploit to get elected and that he constantly fuels.
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But fanning one set of hatreds against immigrants has a way of fanning others, as it did for Bowers when he attacked the synagogue because he was enraged by its support for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
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George Wallace's third-party campaign for president in 1968 was built on a similar foundation of white racism and anti-government rage, skillfully exploiting the fears and hatreds of Americans who despised the upheavals of the 1960s.
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The murder of 50 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand, allegedly by a 28-year-old Australian white supremacist, will be long scrutinized for the way violent hatreds are spawned and staged on social media and the internet.
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The truths that you and I, bitter monsters covered in crust, futilely tying our happiness to local teams and nurturing arbitrary hatreds based on shoe design and geography, cannot see from the shit pits of our lives.
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It may take a wave of nasty populism, a recrudescence of intercommunal hatreds, and quite a bit of bloodshed, but in a world where you can't keep cultures apart, they will have to find ways of co-existing.
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While Russia could be an irritant in some global issues and in managing Europe's centuries-old hatreds, China is already a very credible challenge to American world order — seriously undermining Washington's increasingly unstable trans-Atlantic and Asian alliances.
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The Times wrote:Time and again, communal hatreds overrun the newsfeed—the primary portal for news and information for many users—unchecked as local media are displaced by Facebook and governments find themselves with little leverage over the company.
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And, of course, we were surrounded by an ur-culture in India that we loved and explored and took for granted, as young people do—while enjoying the foreigner's distance from India's own racial enmities and historical hatreds.
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We know too well that tempers rise when the future of our nation is at stake: disagreements beget arguments which become rivalries and lifelong hatreds that we are unwilling to overcome, even for the sake of our country.
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The women in WWE are invariably funneled through this lens, where everyone is friends and hatreds don't last because of some combination of women being in touch with their feelings and mean girls just act like mean girls.
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Peering down into deep Balkan valleys, one can see how absurd local ethnic rivalries and hatreds are; they carve up a continuous landscape of rocky coastlines and dusty roads that can obviously succeed only as an integrated region.
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The president's newfound (or long-hidden) Confederate sympathies are an extension of his other ethnic antipathies, just as the rally's anti-Semitic chants of "Jews will not replace us" are an extension of the alt-right's other hatreds.
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It assumes that Mr. Putin was only reacting to the West, and did not have his own objectives shaped by deeply held fears and hatreds, solemn dreams of glory and political imperatives on which he depends to survive.
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Does it really matter if the president is heightening the conflicts in political life, if he is deepening our cultural divides, if he is activating and validating our tribal identities and hatreds every time he turns on his phone?
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For that matter, how did Ireland's prime minister, Leo Varadkar, the gay son of a Hindu father of Indian descent, merit time from a president who has stirred up a thousand little hatreds from the darkest corners of America?
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This isn't even the first time that we've gotten a peek behind the curtain and have seen Trump's hubris about his ability to tap into people's anxieties — and hatreds — and his ability to bend reality to suit his designs.
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The deep hatreds unleashed in the Syrian conflict, the absence of any trust and the hollowing-out of any moderate presence, as well as the continued involvement of outside powers in arming different proxies, suggest the war has years to run.
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After the universalist ideology of the Cold War era departed, Yugoslavs remembered their long-ago particularity in epic, folktale, and song, and suddenly "ancient ethnic hatreds" became the watchword of the region—though their basis in real history was flimsy.
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Nagorno-Karabakh is the oldest of these smoldering conflicts, distinguished from the others by the deep ethnic hatreds involved and the diaspora's support, which means that Karabakh, known in Armenian as the Artsakh Republic, is not wholly a puppet of Moscow.
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Each step he took, you felt this is the moment when the old structures of violence and repression and ancient hatreds that had so long stunted people's lives and confined the human spirit -- that all that was crumbling before our eyes.
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Each step he took, you felt this is the moment when the old structures of violence and repression and ancient hatreds that had so long stunted people's lives and confined the human spirit — that all that was crumbling before our eyes.
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We forget the words of Edward Herbert (the poet George's brother), "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself," and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient hatreds among peoples.
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We also see a rise in authoritarianism and right wing extremism – both domestic and foreign -- which further weakens this order by exploiting and amplifying resentments, stoking intolerance and fanning ethnic and racial hatreds among those in our societies who are struggling.
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BlacKKKlansman's ending, which featured real life footage of the 2017 white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, deftly connected the past to the present by illustrating that racial hatreds once thought relegated to history's dustbin remain frighteningly alive in the present.
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Nguyen Ngoc Chu, a mathematician, suggested in a statement supporting Kerrey that there were valuable lessons in the discussion for the university's first students: that every judgment requires historical context; that successful people live for the future rather than in past hatreds.
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Prior to Petersen, scholars often thought of ethnic violence in terms of threat (one group turns to violence when it feels threatened by another) or in terms of "ancient hatreds" (long-simmering resentments that have left the groups wanting to kill each other).
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On "Fox & Friends," which provides President Trump with steady ration of half-truths and hatreds to fill an empty head and an empty schedule, a co-host had some advice for younger citizens just now learning how to use the wings of democracy.
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In the end, decency is at the core of good governance and an equitable society, and 2018 has seen evidence of a swelling reaction against the cynicism, lies and hypocrisy of leaders who have systematically fanned fears, prejudice and hatreds to amass power.
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The youngsters — Amelia (the big-voiced, cool-toned Marina Rebeka) and Gabriele (the warmly ringing Charles Castronovo) — try to escape from the shadow of a fading generation's knotted hatreds and conspiracies, but by the end they, too, seem only exhausted and defeated.
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The youngsters — Amelia (the big-voiced, cool-toned Marina Rebeka) and Gabriele (the warmly ringing Charles Castronovo) — try to escape from the shadow of a fading generation's knotted hatreds and conspiracies, but by the end they, too, seem only exhausted and defeated.
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They are complaining about countries working with China which are not even the EU members — some of them merely looking for an associate status because a full membership is a drawn-out obstacles race at the mercy of centuries-old regional hatreds and rivalries.
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Many who died had, like the "Suited" clients, long felt marginalized, and for L.G.B.T. Americans, the massacre has become a symbol of the violence and hidden hatreds that are part of everyday life, while also accentuating the importance of safe spaces like Bindle & Keep.
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In separate and unrelated appearances, former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama both warned that the United States was being torn apart by ancient hatreds that should have been consigned to history long ago and called for addressing economic anxiety through common purpose.
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MINNEAPOLIS — In his first rally since becoming the target of an impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump launched scathing personal attacks on everyone from Joe Biden and his son to Ilhan Omar, as he whipped up a crowd of loyal supporters by focusing them on individual hatreds.
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The party many of us will fight for is a conservative one that appeals to rather than alienates nonwhites, that doesn't view decency as a sign of weakness or confuse bullying and bluster with strength, and that aims to channel aspirations rather than stoke resentments and organize hatreds.
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Most influentially, it is evident in the way the White House uses the bully pulpit and social media to make direct appeals to supporters who are not looking for a press release, but for a powerful person to voice their own prejudices and fears, their hatreds and ambitions.
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Adding to the dangers of the venomous, local ethnic hatreds between Christian Armenians and Muslim Azerbaijanis, the eerily beautiful mountain highland location of the Nagorno-Karabakh region places it on a crossroads where it is buffeted by the combustible politics of the Middle East and the former Soviet republics.
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With the resurgence of old hatreds in the 21st century, philosophers are challenged to think about the ways we trace the history of our discipline and teach our major figures, and whether our professional habits and pieties have been shaped by religious intolerance and other forms of bigotry.
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Poland's Beata Szydlo is perhaps best known in Brussels for vainly trying to block the reappointment of her own countryman, Donald Tusk, as EU summit chairman - a rare example of a government putting hometown hatreds ahead of getting one of its own nationals into a plum seat in the European institutions.
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It does not help that opinion soon soured against the first world war, notably as the Great Depression bit and primal hatreds gripped Europe once more, seeming to mock President Woodrow Wilson's plea, as he braced his country for conflict in 1917, that America had to make the world "safe for democracy".
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He pointed out that the legacy of the Holocaust had created an "immunization" against anti-Semitism, at least in most corners, for decades after World War II. He seemed to think that was fading with memories of the systemic murder of millions of Jews, opening the door to a revival of old hatreds.
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" And if the rhetoric and invective of a political season charged with old and long-dormant hatreds have had a generally destructive effect on what passes for political discourse, perhaps a "Pageant of the People," she said, might symbolize a means of "understanding each other better and getting past this ugly time.
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Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan put together a very nice video debunking the myth that Sunni-Shia sectarianism is all about ancient religious hatreds and explaining how modern-day power politics, beginning in 1979, is actually driving much of the sectarianism we're seeing right now: #RealityCheck: The myth of a Sunni-Shia war.
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But speaking as the last person in the American political-journalistic apparatus (or so it feels) who's still agnostic about Kavanaugh's guilt or innocence, I am more convinced than ever that somebody knows something that could prevent this from metastasizing into our era's Dreyfus Affair — a source of unresolved hatreds for years and decades yet to come.
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"We routinely see high incidents of domestic violence with white supremacists because these individuals are often boiling stews of both personal and group hatreds that combine with a glorification of physical conflict in their subculture," Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino, told me.
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As both president and candidate, Donald Trump has articulated strongly the duty he feels is his uniquely: to improve the security of his fellow citizens against the irrational hatreds of the Islamic State and the random actions of hate and killing that occur as vehicles plow into crowds or knives are wielded against the innocent in public spaces.
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There's a reason some people laugh when I say that mindfulness meditation can save the United States—that it can dampen the political polarization now dividing the country; that it can defuse the hatreds that have propelled the word "tribal" into our political vocabulary and have led serious commentators to compare the US in 2017 to Northern Ireland, even Yugoslavia, in the 1990s.
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The first was that its political problems were similar to those in America, where even the highest tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslims in Iraq could be overcome like political squabbles between Democrats and Republicans in the US. That led to the second prism, which was that the key to solving Iraq's issues was to get its people over their ancient hatreds.
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They represent the future of Christian thinking, envisioning a time when we put aside petty hatreds, when we stop thinking about refugees as enemies, when we embrace our friends at home and abroad as neighbors grounded in the love of God, which only becomes visible when we act in a loving manner, treating our neighbors as we ourselves would like to be treated.
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If the Christmas 1914 story reminds us about the importance of choosing to see past our momentary hatreds, the Christmas 1918 story reminds us how hard that can be, especially when it requires forgiveness — of all the virtues, one of the most beautiful to receive and the most difficult to offer, but perhaps the most important in this world of ours.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been all of these, and now -- after he was killed in a raid by US troops -- he leaves behind a trail of ghastly crimes, internecine hatreds and the sad realization that he and his brand of bloodthirsty, loathing ISIS are an ongoing symptom of regional upheaval and failure, and of what the Internet can do to the isolated and deranged.
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The situation is particularly bad because, as the Times detailed, for many Sri Lankans Facebook is for all purposes their primary portal to the internet, and the company has made little effort to act as a responsible gatekeeper:Time and again, communal hatreds overrun the newsfeed—the primary portal for news and information for many users—unchecked as local media are displaced by Facebook and governments find themselves with little leverage over the company.
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The toppling of Saddam Hussein, combined with a bungled occupation and ill-judged choices — like L. Paul Bremer III's disastrous decision to dissolve the Iraqi Army, which would result in scores of angry armed men without jobs, and fuel the insurgency — unleashed ancient hatreds between Sunni and Shiites and led to cascading horrors, including the toxic rise of the Islamic State and a tsunami of violence that would spread across the region.
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Still, in a week in which England football fans have been filmed throwing coins at child refugees in France and on the day in which Nigel Farage stood in front of billboards showing lines of non-white refugees in a seemingly fascist attempt to stir up the hatreds of the nation, it is shocking enough that a British public servant who stood up for the world's most marginalized people has been killed in cold blood.
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If we observe the fuller picture, it is evident that much of the world is riven with local rivalries, tribal enmities and ancient hatreds that have nothing to do with the wellbeing of the average American citizen, or the national interests of the U.S. The persistent strength of the Taliban is the result of local concerns, such as ethnic-Pashtun nationalism and the rivalry between India and Pakistan that causes the latter to provide some support to militants in Afghanistan as a way of countering Indian influence there.
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In her poem, "East Berlin 1989," Lorde beat back against the Cold War triumphalism of the times with a dark vision of discord and racial violence, anticipating the surge of far-right hostility that would emerge in the reunified former East: "Already my blood shrieks / through the East Berlin streets / misplaced hatreds / volcanic tallies rung upon cement / Afro-German woman stomped to death / by skinheads in Alexanderplatz…" At a time when the far right is once again on the rise in Europe — and in eastern Germany in particular — the poem feels as trenchant as ever.
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In a catalog wearying to relate, in just 72 hours last month we learned that Cesar Sayoc was radicalized on Facebook and threatened others on Twitter, before he sent pipe bombs to more than a dozen of President Trump's critics; that Robert Bowers shared conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic messages on Gab, before he allegedly killed 11 people and injured six others; and that Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing Brazilian politician best known for his pullulating hatreds (for homosexuals, Afro-Brazilians, women—pluralism itself), waged a campaign of disinformation on WhatsApp, before he won election as president.
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