Abstract
Hate is a normative part of the human experience. Look at history. Regardless of when, where, under what economic or political system, what major religion is followed, or any other variable, people have always had the capacity to define someone else as an “other,” and hate him, often with deadly results.
Highlights
Hate is a normative part of the human experience
If hate is defined as an individual problem, we turn to psychology; if it is the individual in the context of the group, social psychology; if it is the group, sociology; if it is cultural, anthropology; if it is political, political science; if it is moral, philosophy
How do we combine these disparate parts into a logical and workable whole? There’s no easy answer, but we need to start by identifying the various disciplines that have something valuable to say about hatred, analyzing their component parts, and pulling them together into the larger enterprise of hate studies
Summary
Bill, who died in 2002 of Lou Gehrig’s disease, knew more about fighting hatred than most people Before he founded the Coalition, he had been a parish priest in a small town in Idaho when the Aryan Nations began harassing Jews and spreading their doctrine of white supremacy. Unlike the religious leaders or law enforcement officials in the Coalition, the academics were not representing their institutions, communities, or disciplines. Nor did they regularly provide advice based on their expertise. Gonzaga University became that place, and Bill–after he retired from the Coalition–became increasingly active with Gonzaga’s Institute for Action Against Hate It is fitting, that this first International Conference to Establish the Field of Hate Studies, held at Gonzaga, is dedicated to the memory of Bill Wassmuth
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