# Why am I being asked to hate again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 20, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-asked-to-hate-again/369467 "2006-08-20T18:28:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-asked-to-hate-again/369467/1 "2006-08-20T18:28:21Z")
All I can think of is Martin Luther King, Jr. and how he couldn’t have meant for racial equality to apply only to Black Men and Women. Are we returning to an era of discrimination on the brink of a new America? ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-asked-to-hate-again/369467/2 "2006-08-20T18:32:14Z")
Who told this White person he could speak? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-asked-to-hate-again/369467/3 "2006-08-20T18:33:32Z")
Whats the debate exactly? I’m not even really sure I understand what the OP is saying. It LOOKS like english, but could someone take pity on my hung over self and translate? -XT ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-asked-to-hate-again/369467/4 "2006-08-20T18:39:28Z")
[QUOTE=MessyPaint] All I can think of is Martin Luther King, Jr. and how he couldn’t have meant for racial equality to apply only to Black Men and Women. Are we returning to an era of discrimination on the brink of a new America? [/QUOTE] Who is asking you to hate, whom are they asking you to hate, and why do you think you have to hate someone just because somone else told you to do it? ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-asked-to-hate-again/369467/5 "2006-08-20T18:39:08Z")
You guys all look like each other! I always see the same jokes around here. There’s no debate, trash it, along with my membership. Another one bites the dust! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-asked-to-hate-again/369467/6 "2006-08-20T18:51:27Z")
[QUOTE=MessyPaint] You guys all look like each other! I always see the same jokes around here. There’s no debate, trash it, along with my membership. Another one bites the dust! [/QUOTE] Are we supposed to be mind readers? Who is asking you to hate? Who are they asking you to hate…and why? No one is asking ME to hate, so I’m unsure whether this is voices in your head, some crack pot neighbor or perhaps other personal associate, maybe some web site you read…no idea. What has MLK to do with…well, anything? What indications do you have that we maybe ‘returning to an era of discrimination on the brink of a new America’…discrimination against whom, by whom. What do you base this on…and what are we supposed to base our answer on? The most important question I have is…do you perchance know gonzomax? 😛 -XT ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-asked-to-hate-again/369467/7 "2006-08-21T02:49:19Z")
When come back, bring discussion point. You are welcome to open a new thread with a point to it (or a new thread with some more explicit anger in the **BBQ Pit** ), but this thread is closed. [/Moderating]